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John Cameron Mitchell the Origin of Love Tour Matthew Placek Matthew Saturday, February 29, 2020, 8pm Zellerbach Hall John Cameron Mitchell The Origin of Love Tour With Amber Martin Featuring the Songs of Hedwig by Stephen Trask Written by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask Performed by John Cameron Mitchell Additional Vocals by Amber Martin Musical Direction and Guitar by Justin Craig Drums by Peter Yanowitz Bass by Matt Duncan Makeup and Wigs by Mike Potter Costumes by Erik Bergrin Production Management and Lighting by Eric Southern and Justin Partier Sound by Dylan Goodhue Video Design by Cho Su-hyun and Michael Zumbrun Produced by ArKtype /Thomas O. Kriegsmann Exclusive John Cameron Mitchell and Hedwig gear available in the lobby and at johncameronmitchell.com Tonight’s performance will be performed without intermission and will last approximately two hours. Cal Performances’ 2019–20 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 27 ABOUT THE ARTISTS John Cameron Mitchell directed, starred in, and Condon (Dreamgirls, Dreamworks/Paramount), wrote, with Stephen Trask, the film Hedwig and the Alan Poul (The Back-up Plan, CBS Films), Tom Angry Inch (2001), for which he won Best Director Vaughn (So Undercover, Exclusive Media), and at the Sundance Festival and was nominated for a Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace). In Golden Globe as Best Actor. His recent Broadway addition to Hedwig, Trask’s work for the Broadway production of Hedwig garnered him Tony Awards stage includes orchestrations for the recent produc- for his performance and for Best Revival. He won tion of Rocky, the musical based on the classic film. an Obie Award for Hedwig Off-Broadway as well His latest show, This Ain’t No Disco, premiered at for as starring in Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of the Atlantic Theater last year. He is also at work Me. Mitchell directed Tennessee Williams’ King- on a new musical in collaboration with book writer dom of Earth Off-Broadway with Cynthia Nixon Chris D’Arienzo (Rock of Ages) to bring the Martin and Peter Sarsgaard. He directed the filmsShort - Scorsese/New Regency film The King of Comedy to bus (2006), and Rabbit Hole (2010) and How to the stage. Known for his time fronting 1990s New Talk to Girls at Parties (2018), both starring Nicole York City punk band Cheater, Trask has also re- Kidman who was nominated for Best Actress Os- corded and performed with artists such as Stone car for the former. Recent television roles include Temple Pilots, Bob Mould, Sleater-Kinney, and Hulu’s Shrill, HBO’s Girls and Vinyl, CBS’ The Yoko Ono. Good Fight, and Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle. He stars in, wrote (with Bryan Weller), and di- Amber Martin is a celebrated New York City rected the musical podcast series Anthem: Ho- vocalist, cabaret star, and comedic monologist. munculus featuring Cynthia Erivo, Glenn Close, Named one of the Top Performers of the Year by Patti Lupone, Denis O’Hare, Laurie Anderson, and the New Yorker, Martin brings a combination of Marion Cotillard, which is playing on the Lumi- cabaret, belting vocals, and no-holds-barred com- nary podcast platform. edy to her live, raucous, genre-hopping musical performances. She previously made her Broadway Stephen Trask first achieved wide acclaim debut in Tales of the City at the Music Box Theater. as the co-creator/composer/lyricist of the Some of her performances include appearing with award-winning stage musical Hedwig and the Joan Rivers on Celebrity Apprentice and opening Angry Inch, which was also developed into a feature for Rivers’ live New York City shows. You can hear film released by Fine Line Features and for which her belting out featured vocals on the Scissor Sisters’ he won an Obie Award; the Outer Critics Circle single “Inevitable” (co-produced with Pharrell). She Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical; was a featured vocalist with comedian Sandra Bern- a 1998 New York Magazine Award; Drama Desk hard at Town Hall in New York City and has twice nominations for Outstanding Music, Lyrics, and been a featured guest on Bernhard’s Sirius XM New Musical; a Grammy nomination for Best Cast radio show, Sandyland. Martin has performed her Album; two GLAMA Awards; and Entertainment own solo shows in New York City and New Orle- Weekly’s Best Soundtrack Award for 2001. The ans, as well as the TBA Festival, Treefort Festival, Broadway production of the show won four Tony Outsider Festival, and the Jazz and Blues Festival in Awards in 2014, and the soundtrack was nominated Altomonte, Italy, and has recurring New York City for a Grammy. Since 2003, Trask has been scoring residencies at Alan Cumming’s Club Cumming, films at both the independent and studio levels for Joe’s Pub, and the Cutting Room. Martin continues directors as diverse as Tom McCarthy (The Station to evolve as writer, curator, choreographer, and star Agent, Miramax Films), Paul Weitz (In Good of her own performances, which include The Days Company, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak: of My Lives and Three Women: Joplin, Midler & The Vampire’s Assistant, Little Fockers, Universal Nyro (Solo Artist Residency at Joe’s Pub), Hi! (Best Pictures), Todd Graff (Camp, IFC Productions/ Solo Performance Drammy Award), Wigshop, Jersey Films/Killer Films), Tamara Jenkins, (The Stoned Soul: In Love with Laura Nyro (Residency Savages, Fox Searchlight), Jon Kasdan (In the Land at Feinstein’s/54 Below), and Janis: Undead (a con- of Women, Warner Brothers), Robert Benton (Feast tinuing US/international tour). She is also touring of Love, MGM/Lakeshore), John Cameron Mitchell her original album, A.M. Gold, including two songs (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fine Line), Sean featured in John Cameron Mitchell’s recent film, Anders (Sex Drive, Summit Entertainment), Bill How to Talk to Girls at Parties. 28 PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS Justin Craig (music director and guitar) is a is currently working on a new solo album and an Grammy-nominated record producer, composer, original musical, and is the orchestrator/arranger and New York City-based music director (Hedwig for the upcoming King of Comedy musical written and the Angry Inch, Broadway and first national by Stephen Trask and Chris D’Arienz. tour). Coming up in pop/rock, he spent years writ- ing, recording, and touring with artists and bands Mike Potter (wigs and makeup design) was born all over the world. After relocating to New York and raised in rural Delaware and earned his BS City in 2011, he began orchestrating and perform- in resource economics from the University of ing in musical theater productions in addition to Delaware. He began creating wigs and makeup at his studio work as a producer and musician. He has a young age. Potter has done the wigs and makeup also worked in film as a composer, score mixer, and for Hedwig since the first performances with Trask performing multi-instrumentalist (including How and Mitchell at the Jane Street Theatre, as well as to Talk to Girls at Parties, The Nice Guys, Match, the wigs and makeup for the film, the Broadway Admission, Lovelace, and Little Fockers). run, and the subsequent tour. He currently works as a makeup artist in the fashion and film indus- Peter Yanowitz (drums) is a songwriter, libret- tries, and is also a painter. Potter currently lives and tist, and performer living in New York City. He works in New York City. made his Broadway debut as Schlatko, the drum- mer, in the Tony Award-winning Broadway Erik Bergrin (costumes) is a costume designer and musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Yanowitz fiber artist based in New York City. His work has was the original drummer of the Wallflowers, been featured in galleries and museums such as and for Natalie Merchant on her first three Marlborough Contemporary, the State Historical solo records, Tigerlily, Ophelia, and Live in Concert. Museum in Moscow, Envoy Enterprise Gallery, Other artists he has recorded and performed with David Fierman Gallery, AC Institute, the Society of include Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, and Wilco. Arts and Crafts in Boston, and many more. He has With Stephen Trask, Yanowitz co-wrote This Ain’t designed costumes for shows such as John Cameron No Disco, a rock opera about Studio 54 and Mudd Mitchell’s Origin of Love Tour and Goodbar at the Club in 1979, which made its off-Broadway debut Public Theater, and musicians such as Lady Gaga in the summer of 2018 at the Atlantic Theater. He and Peaches. His costume designs have been fea- was also the bass player and main songwriter for the tured in television shows such as America’s Next band Morningwood on Capitol Records. Currently, Top Model and Make Me A Supermodel, and high- Yanowitz plays in the band Princess Goes to the lighted in films such as Violet Tendencies. Bergrin’s Butterfly Museum with Matt Katz Bohen and creations have been covered in articles and publica- Michael C. Hall. tions such as Dazed and Confused, Zink, the New York Times, New York magazine, Star, King Kong, Matt Duncan (bass) has worked as a professional Zoo, ODDA, and many more. musician for over a decade in various capacities, most often as a bass player and a singer/songwriter/ Eric Southern (production management and light- producer. He played bass as Jacek in the Broadway ing design) is an Obie Award-winning designer production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and for theater, opera, and dance. Recent work in- continued in that role during the national tour that cludes projects with Lincoln Center, Playwrights followed. Duncan’s solo albums are enjoyed by Horizons, BAM, the Public Theater, and the hundreds of thousands of fans on streaming ser- Kennedy Center.
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