THE ORIGIN OF LOVE
With
Amber
Martin
and Very Special g uests
Featuring the s ongs of Hedwig by Stephen Trask
Produced in Association with ArKtype
Written and Performed by John Cameron Mitchell + Stephen Trask
Additional Vocals by Amber Martin, Lena Hall & Miriam Shor
Musical direction by Justin Craig
Guitar by Stephen Trask, Justin Craig & Tim Mislock
drums by Peter Yanowitz
Bass by Matt Duncan
Makeup & Wigs by Mike Potter
Costumes by Erik Bergrin
Additional Make-up by Nicole Bridgeford
Lighting by Justin Partier
Video by Michael Zumbrun & Cho Su-hyun sound by Dylan goodhue
Cover Photo by Mick Rock
President , ArKtype: Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Managing Producer , ArKtype: J.J. El- far
Presented in association with Joe’s Pub / Public Theater
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LArrY ZuCKer , Executive director
m.A. pApper , Artistic director
Jeff mAnn , Marketing director
BiLL dehLinG , technical director
Keith shermAn And AssoCiAtes , Publicity
CArL ACAmporA , Production Manager
LeiA-Lee dorAn , Principal designer
ALeX KoVeos , digital Media Manager
meLAY ArAYA , Associate Artistic dir. / Archivist
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
John directed, starred in and wrote, with stephen Trask, the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), for which he won Best director at the sundance Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor. His recent Broadway production of Hedwig garnered him Tony Awards for his performance and for Best revival. He won an Obie Award for Hedwig Off-Broadway as well as for starring in Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me. He directed Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth Off-Broadway with Cynthia Nixon and Peter sarsgaard. He directed the films Shortbus (2006), Rabbit Hole (2010) and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2018) both starring Nicole Kidman who was nominated for Best Actress Oscar for the former. recent TV roles include Hulu’s Shrill, HBO’s Girls and Vinyl, CBs’s The Good Fight, and Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle. He stars in, wrote (with Bryan Weller) and directed the musical podcast series Anthem: Homunculus featuring Cynthia Erivo, Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, denis O’Hare, Laurie Anderson and Marion Cotillard, which is playing on the Luminary podcast platform.
STEPHEN TRASK
first achieved wide acclaim as the co-creator/composer/lyricist of the award-winning stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which was also developed into a feature film released by Fine Line Features and for which he won an Obie Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, a 1998 New York Magazine Award, drama desk nominations for Outstanding Music, Lyrics and New Musical, a Grammy nomination for Best Cast Album, two GLAMA Awards, and Entertainment Weekly’s Best soundtrack Award for 2001. The Broadway production of the show won four Tony Awards in 2014, and the soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy. since 2003, Trask has been scoring films at both the independent and studio levels for directors as diverse as Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, Miramax Films), Paul Weitz (In Good Company, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Little Fockers, Universal Pictures), Todd Graff (Camp, IFC Productions/Jersey Films/Killer Films), Tamara Jenkins, (The Savages, Fox searchlight), Jon Kasdan (In the Land of Women, Warner Brothers), robert Benton (Feast of Love, MGM/Lakeshore), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fine Line), sean Anders (Sex Drive, summit Entertainment), Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, dreamworks/ Paramount), Alan Poul, (The Back-up Plan, CBs Films), Tom Vaughn (So Undercover, Exclusive Media), rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace). In addition to Hedwig, Trask’s work for the Broadway stage includes orchestrations for the recent production of Rocky, the musical based on the classic film. His latest show This Ain’t No Disco premiered at The Atlantic Theater last year. He is also at work on a new musical in collaboration with book writer Chris d’Arienzo (Rock of Ages) to bring the Martin scorsese/New regency film The King of Comedy to the stage. Known for his time fronting ‘90s NYC punk band Cheater, Trask has also recorded and performed with artists such as stone Temple Pilots, Bob Mould, sleater-Kinney and Yoko Ono.
AMBER MARTIN is a celebrated NYC Vocalist, Cabaret star and Comedic Monologist. Named one of the Top Performers of the Year by The New Yorker, Martin brings a combination of cabaret, belting vocals & no-holds-barred comedy to her live, raucous, genre-hopping musical performances. she previously made her Broadway debut in Tales of the City at The Music Box Theater. some of her performances include appearing with Joan rivers on Celebrity Apprentice and opening for Joan’s live NYC shows. You can hear her belting out featured vocals on The scissor sisters single “Inevitable” (coproduced with Pharrell). she was a featured vocalist with comedian sandra Bernhard at Town Hall in New York City and has twice been a featured guest on sandra’s sirius XM radio show, Sandyland. Amber has performed her own solo shows in New York City & New Orleans, as well as The TBA Festival, Treefort Festival, Outsider Festival, Jazz and Blues Festival in Altomonte, Italy, and has recurring NYC residencies at Alan Cumming’s Club Cumming, Joe’s Pub and The Cutting room. Amber continues to evolve as writer, curator, choreographer and star of her own performances, The Days of My Lives & Three Women: Joplin, Midler & Nyro (solo Artist residency at Joe’s Pub, NYC), Hi! (Best solo Performance drammy Award), Wigshop, Stoned Soul: In Love with Laura Nyro (residency at Feinstein’s/54 Below) and Janis: Undead (a continuing U.s./Int’l tour). she is also touring her original album, A.M. Gold, including 2 songs featured in John Cameron Mitchell’s recent film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties.
JuSTIN CRAIg (Music director & Guitarist) is a Grammy nominated record producer, composer, and NYC-based musical director (Hedwig and the Angry Inch --- Broadway and first national tour). Coming up in pop / rock, he spent years writing, recording, and touring with artists and bands all over the world. After relocating to NYC in 2011 he began orchestrating and performing in musical theatre productions in addition to his studio work as producer and musician. Additionally, he has worked in film as a composer, score mixer, and performing multi-instrumentalist (How to Talk to Girls at Parties, The Nice Guys, Match, Admission, Lovelace, Little Fockers, more...).
TIM MISLOCK (guitar) made his Broadway debut as an original cast member with Hedwig and The Angry Inch. For the past 13 years, Tim has recorded and toured the world with bands, such as Tegan & sara, The Antlers, and Holly Miranda. He is a composer and recently released his first solo record, Now Is The Last Best Time, a tribute to Alzheimer’s caretakers. He thanks his wife, family, and friends for their endless support. @tim_mislock
PETER YANOWITZ
(drums) is a songwriter, librettist, and performer living in New York City. He made his Broadway debut as ‘schlatko,’ the drummer in the Tony award-winning Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Yanowitz was the original drummer of The Wallflowers, and for Natalie Merchant on her first three solo records Tigerlily, Ophelia and Live in Concert. Other artists he has recorded and performed with include Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg and Wilco. With stephen Trask, Peter cowrote This Ain’t No Disco, a rock opera about studio 54 and Mudd club in 1979, which made its offBroadway debut in the summer of 2018 at the Atlantic Theater. Yanowitz was also the bass player and main songwriter for the band Morningwood on Capitol records. Currently, Peter plays in the band Princess goes to the Butterfly Museum with Matt Katz Bohen and Michael C. Hall.
MATT DuNCAN has worked as a professional musician for over a decade in various capacities, most often as a bass player and a singer/songwriter/producer. He played bass as “Jacek” in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and continued that role during the national tour that followed. duncan’s solo albums are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of fans on streaming services every month, and he continues to play bass with major touring acts. duncan got his start playing in punk, jazz, and folk bands in Lexington, Kentucky before moving to NYC in 2014 to join the Hedwig cast. Although he frequently moonlights as a saxophonist and keyboard player, his love for the interplay of rhythm and melody always brings him back to the bass, his true instrumental love.
ERIK BERgRIN is a costume designer and fiber artist based in NYC. His work has been featured in galleries and museums such as Marlborough Contemporary, The state Historical Museum in Moscow, Envoy Enterprise Gallery, david Fierman Gallery, AC Institute, The society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, A banner of his work flying in the Garment district NYC, HErE arts, and many more. He has designed costumes for shows such as John Cameron Mitchell’s ”Origin of Love tour, “Goodbar,” at the Public Theater, and musicians such as Lady Gaga and Peaches. His costume designs have been featured in tv shows such as, “America’s Next Top Model,” and “Make Me A Supermodel,” and highlighted in films such as, “Violet Tendencies.” Erik’s creations have been in articles and publications such as Dazed and Confused, Zink, NyTimes, NY Mag, Star, King Kong, Zoo, Dust, Bullett, ODDA, and many more.
MICHAEL ZuMBRuN (Video design) is a concert production and lighting specialist. He is currently part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s performance arm, MetLiveArts. Other notable clients and venues include Webster Hall, skrillex, Erykah Badu, Alva Noto, and John Varvatos. Michael lives and works in NYC.
JuSTIN A. PARTIER (Lighting designer) is a New York City based Lighting designer With ArKtype: Aftermath (World Tour) & Trigger (Us Tour). recent designs: Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci & Verdi Requiem Mass (san Francisco Opera), Fascinating Rhythm (Transcendence Theater Company), Rich Girl (Florida studio Theater), COLORED (Kyle Marshall Choreography), This Wonderful Life (Luna stage), The Net Will Appear & The Clearing (59E59), 912OZ (sanctuary Theater Company), Postcard from Morocco (Merola Opera), Mary Poppins, Kiss Me Kate & Singin’ in the Rain (Merry Go round Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Nassau Community College), Red (Arkansas repertory Theater), A Midsummer Nights Dream (schloss Werdenberg – Buchs sG, switzerland), Peter & the Starcatcher, The Foreigner, Cabaret, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Rough Crossing & A Grand Night For Singing (Bristol Valley Theater). justinpartierlighting.com.
DYLAN gOODHuE (sound designer) is a front of house audio engineer and musician. He has worked with Grammy awarding winners roomful of Teeth, Grupo Fantasma, Bela Fleck & Willie Nelson. He has mixed festivals including sXsW, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Calgary stampede, Herzberg & Luminato. A native of Toronto, dylan is now living in Austin, Texas. There he plays guitar in a hip-hop cover band called Classic Hiphop Live, operates a farm in his backyard, teaches live audio, does yoga and loves his cat Leonardo Trouserpants the 3rd.
MIKE POTTER (Wigs and Makeup design) was born and raised in rural delaware. He began doing wigs and makeup at a young age. He gained a Bs in resource Economics, University of delaware. He did the wigs and makeup for Hedwig since the beginning with Trask and Mitchell at the Jane street Theatre as well as the wigs and makeup for Hedwig the film, the Broadway run and subsequent tour. He currently works in the fashion, film industries as a makeup artist, and is also a painter. Mike currently lives and works in New York City.
ARKTYPE / THOMAS O. KRIEgSMANN
(Producer) is a management and production company specializing in new work development and touring. Over the past 14 years, ArKtype’s work has grown to encompass renowned artists from thirty different countries, multiple genres, and commercial and non-profit support structures resulting in new work for a variety of spaces. His acclaimed work as producer has been seen worldwide, proudly beginning his work in the production, development and touring of emerging ensembles. His work includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yael Farber, daniel Fish, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, John Cameron Mitchell, Lisa Peterson, Kaneza schaal, Peter sellars, Tony Taccone and Julie Taymor. He recently premiered Bryce dessner & Korde Arrington Tuttle’s Triptych (Eyes of One on Another), sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A Thousand Thoughts, Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis’ Trigger based in communities nationwide in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, Kaneza schaal and Christopher Myers’ Cartography, Big dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case, the Us premiere of Nalaga’at deaf-Blind Theater’s Not by Bread Alone, and Andrew Ondrejcak & shara Worden’s You Us We All. Ongoing collaborations include 600 Highwaymen, Toshi reagon, Ashley Fure, Brent Green, Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen, rude Mechs, Nora Chipaumire, Adrien M. & Claire B. and Compagnia T.P.O.
SPECIAL THANKS
david M. Hawkins, showtune Productions, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Patrick Herold, Brian Yim, david Binder, Mick rock, Liz Vap, Matthew Placek, Chris Glass, Christa, Jeff William Gridley, Hansel, david Lefcort, M.A. Papper, shanta Thake and Gigi Kriegsmann.
Originally presented by David M. Hawkins and Showtune Productions
Continued development by Brian Yim and Shownote Productions
Merchandise and Hedwig memorabilia available at junctioncitymercantile.com
ALI fORNEY CENTER
A portion of the proceeds from tonight’s performance benefits Ali Forney Center in its mission to protect LGBTQ youths from the harms of homelessness and empower them with the tools needed to live independently. since AFC’s launch with just six beds in a church basement in New York City, the organization has grown to become the largest agency dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youths in the country – assisting nearly 1,400 youths per year through a 24-hour drop-In Center which provides 70,000 meals annually, medical and mental health services through an on-site clinic, and a scattered site housing program.
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