He created & starred when Hedwig around Hedwig and the Angry Inch, an off-Broadway musical play (1998) and movie (2001). He besides starred when Dickon in the Broadway musical theater version of The Secret Garden and can be heard on the original cast recording.

Cameron Mitchell was natural inside El Paso, Texas. His father occurs as out officer in the U.S. Army, and Cameron Mitchell grew up on army bases and in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His mother is from either Scotland and emigrated to the United States as a young woman.

When a profits of Hedwig, Mitchell expressed an interest inside financing, writing, & directing the film which would exist as of superiority, however would incorporate expressed sex around the realistic way. Inside 2005 the film, called Shortbus, began pre-production. Mitchell as well executive produced a film Tarnation, the critically praised & award-winning docudrama just about a life of a shirtlifter known as Jonathan Caouette.

Cameron Mitchell, world health organization is openly gay, currently sleep in New York City.