Stephen Trask at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

Stephen Trask is an award-winning American musician and composer, who graduated from Wesleyan University.

He was the music director and house band member at the New York drag club Squeezebox, where he performed with stars such as Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone, as well as various drag queens.

Trask composed the music and lyrics for the off-Broadway stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also a 2001 film), about a transsexual rock star named Hedwig. Trask's real-life band Cheater performed as Hedwig's band "The Angry Inch". He received an Obie Award for the play and a Grammy award nomination for the movie.

He has also done three films with filmmaker Paul Weitz. He composed the score for 2004's In Good Company and American Dreamz, for which he also co-wrote the numerous songs the contestants sing, as well as the 2009 film Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant. In addition, he scored the 2003 movies Camp and The Station Agent.^[1]

Trask performed with Yoko Ono on July 14, 2007 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ Raymond, Gerard (2003-02-04). "Fresh stage directions: a new year brings a wealth of new theater choices of special interest to lesbian and gay audiences coast-to-coast". The Advocate. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Feb_4/ai_97175020/pg_2. Retrieved 2007-04-12. 
2. ^ "Pitchfork Music Festival: Day 2", ShoutMouth.com, 2007-07-15, http://www.shoutmouth.com/index.php/news/22001, retrieved 2007-09-13 

[edit] External links

• stephentrask.net biography
• Stephen Trask at the Internet Movie Database
• stephentrask.com official web page

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