Biography
The band Cheater with director-actor-singer John Cameron Mitchell are the original Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Begun as an off-Broadway stage production (1998), and then made into a movie (2001) about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by a transsexual singer. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask (then in Cheater). The story draws on the life of Jayne County, the original transgender rocker, the androgynous glam rock era of David Bowie (who produced the original run of the show), early punk rocker Iggy Pop, and the gender bender fashions of the early 1980s.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.