Tony and Obie Award-winning actor, author, and director John Cameron Mitchell will return to Broadway within the hit play Oh, Mary! for a restricted 12-week engagement this winter. Greatest referred to as the author and authentic star of Hedwig and the Indignant Inch, Mitchell will play ‘Mary Todd Lincoln’ starting Tuesday, February 3, 2026 via April 26, 2026.
“Cole Escola and Sam Pinkleton are the wild horses that dragged me again to tug and I could not be happier!” stated Mitchell. “As essentially the most mature Mary but, my days are crammed with working the StairMaster, mainlining Ozempic and mastering my Sensible Dialogue. ‘Line?!’ Thanks, Cole, might I do you proud mangling your basic!”
“Welcoming John into this forged feels each scrumptious and someway inevitable,” added Tony Award-winning director Sam Pinkleton. “So many people within the Oh, Mary! Universe, myself very a lot included, wouldn’t be the place we’re with out John’s work, which reshaped what reside efficiency may appear and feel like for generations of tender weirdos. He’s a queer trailblazer, cultural icon, good actor — and, most significantly for his new position, an enormous fool.”
Mitchell joins an esteemed firm of actors who’ve donned the position’s bratty curls, together with the Tony Award-winning authentic star and playwright, Cole Escola, together with present ‘Mary’ Jane Krakowski (via January 4, 2026), Tituss Burgess, Betty Gilpin, Hannah Solow, and Jinkx Monsoon, who returns to the present for an encore engagement on January 8, 2026. Solow will play the title position on January 6 and seven.
Directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024 on the Lyceum Theatre, the place it grew to become the primary present within the theater’s 121-year historical past to gross greater than $1,000,000 in a single week. Oh, Mary! has since damaged its personal field workplace document twelve instances, and have become the primary present of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its funding.
John Cameron Mitchell grew up all around the US and Europe because the son of an American Military basic and a Scottish painter/instructor. He has been directing, writing and performing for stage, display, tv and podcast for over 40 years. He studied theater with Frank Galati at Northwestern College (1981-5) and subsequently co-wrote the musical Hedwig and the Indignant Inch that Rolling Stone referred to as “the very best rock musical ever,” and for which he received a 1998 Village Voice Obie Award, the 2014 Tony Award for Greatest Revival of a Musical and a 2015 Particular Tony for his efficiency. He wrote/directed/starred within the movie adaptation which the New York Instances referred to as one of many “Prime Ten Movies of 2001” and for which he received the Greatest Director and Viewers Awards on the 2001 Sundance Movie Competition and a 2001 Golden Globe nomination for Greatest Actor in a Musical or Comedy and 17 different awards.
John wrote and directed the 2006 sexually frank, improv-based movie Shortbus which premiered in Cannes’ Official Choice and received a number of pageant awards in addition to a nom for Greatest Ensemble from the Gotham Awards. His 2010 movie Rabbit Gap, tailored from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, gained him a Greatest Director nom on the Impartial Spirits, and a Greatest Actress Oscar nom for Nicole Kidman. He directed and co-wrote the YA punk romance movie Learn how to Speak to Ladies at Events (2017) starring Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman. He executive-produced (with Gus Van Sant) Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation (2004) which received Greatest Documentary from the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics.
John is a founding member of the Drama Division Theater Firm for which he tailored and directed Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth starring Cynthia Nixon and Peter Sarsgaard.
Different Broadway performing credit embody the unique casts of The Secret Backyard (Drama Desk nom), Six Levels of Separation and Large River. Off Broadway: The Future of Me by Larry Kramer (1993 Obie Award for Greatest Actor, Drama Desk nom), and Lincoln Heart’s Good day Once more (Drama Desk nom). Movie performing work contains: Spike Lee’s Woman Six, Michael Mann’s Band of the Hand, Guide of Love, Misplaced. TV roles: “Ladies,” “The Sandman,” “Shrill,” “The Good Combat,” “Yellowjackets,” “Mozart within the Jungle,” “Vinyl,” “MacGyver,” “Head of the Class,” “The Equalizer,” “The Twilight Zone,” “The Stepford Kids,” and as a collection common in “Celebration Woman,” “Metropolis on Hearth,” and as Joe Unique in “Joe Vs Carole.”
He wrote and directed two fictional podcast collection: the autobiographic musical Anthem: Homunculus (2019) referred to as “a hallucinatory masterpiece” by Rolling Stone, starring himself, Glenn Shut, Cynthia Erivo, Patti LuPone and Laurie Anderson; and Cancellation Island starring Holly Hunter. He’s a DJ/founding father of the long-running Mattachine Dance Celebration and launched the collaborative music albums New American Dream Pts. 1&2, and Turning Time Round. He stays energetic on the live performance circuit with The Origin of Love – The Songs and Tales of Hedwig, Cassette Roulette, Blackstar Symphony and Queen Bitch – John Cameron Mitchell Sings Bowie.
John is a former fellow of The Sundance Institute Filmmaker Labs and has represented the Institute as a screenwriting advisor in Brazil and Peru. He obtained the 2007 Dorothy Hirshon Award for Cinematic Achievement from New Faculty College and the 2019 Excellence in Appearing Award from the Provincetown Movie Competition. For his work on homosexual/trans rights he obtained the New York State Senate Democrats’ 2004 Particular Human Rights Award. He’s presently engaged on LSM, his new play about artist Claude Cahun and two biopics (about Allen Ginsberg and AIDS activist Peter Staley), in addition to instructing “Problemagic Cinema,” a movie course at College of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
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