Stephen Trask
Bio
Stephen Trask first came to notice as the co-creator/composer/lyricist of the award winning stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for which Stephen won an Obie Award, 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 Best Soundtrack Award for 2001. The play was then developed into a feature film release by Fine Line Features in 2001. Since 2003, Stephen has been scoring films on both the independent and studio level for directors as diverse as Tom McCarthy (Station Agent, Miramax Films), Paul Weitz (In Good Company, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Universal Pictures; 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, Jeffrey Friedman (Lovelace). Stephen has recorded and performed with artists such as Stone Temple Pilots, Bob Mould, Sleater-Kinney, and Yoko Ono. Currently he is working on a new musical with Rick Elice (Jersey Boys, The Addams Family) and Peter Yanowitz (Natalie Merchant, Morningwood).
