Wade McCollum | |
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| Born | 1978 |
| Occupation(s) | film actor, stage actor, composer/musician |
| Awards | Best Actor: Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Circle Award (Emcee in Cabaret), Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch) Backstage Garland Award (Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Drammy Award (Batboy in Batboy the Musical) |
| Website | www |
Wade McCollum (born 1978) is an American film actor, stage actor and composer/musician. [1]
McCollum was born in 1978 in Chico, California. [2] His father is a rock-n-roll drummer and McCollum spent his early life on the road traveling from town to town. [3] He spent some school years in Ashland, Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. [1] He left high school at age 16 to attend the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. [4]
After graduating from the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, [5] [6] McCollum went on to land the role of Hedwig in a 2002 Triangle Theatre production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch . [7] McCollum went on to star in several productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, including the Ovation Award-winning [8] 2004 Celebration Theatre production in Hollywood, CA. [3] For this production McCollum won the Backstage West Garland Award, [9] The Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award [10] and was praised by publications such as Variety and the Los Angeles Times . [11] [3]
McCollum released a music album called Beauty is a Streetlight in 2006.
While in Portland, McCollum appeared as Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, [12] the Emcee in Cabaret opposite Storm Large as Sally Bowles, [13] and Prior in Angels in America . [14] At Portland Center Stage, he starred as Batboy in Bat Boy: The Musical [15] and the one-person shows I Am My Own Wife [23] and The Santaland Diaries .[29] [51] McCollum also co-founded and functioned as artistic director of Insight Out Theatre Collective where his hit original musical ONE (aka The Other Shore) was produced.[52]ONE was still in development for commercial production, as of 2022. [1]
McCollum went on to appear in Jersey Boys , [16] led Broadway’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert First National Tour, [17] and upon his return to New York City, made his Broadway debut in Wicked. [18] McCollum has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway shows including Triassic Parq [19] and most notably his Lucille Lortel Award nominated [20] turn as Ernest Shackleton in Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, for which he garnered the prestigious Norton Award for “Best Actor” [21] with the show winning the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical in 2017 [22] Ernest Shackleton Loves Me was streamed live [23] during its run in NYC and available on Broadway HD. [24]
In 2011 McCollum appeared as the Emcee in Dallas Theatre Center’s Cabaret opposite Kate Wetherhead as Sally Bowles. [25] Wetherhead is the creator of the Web Comedy Submissions Only in which McCollum played Nolan Grigsby. [26]
In 2018, McCollum originated the role of Carl von Cosel in the new musical It Happened In Key West on London’s West End. [27]
McCollum’s first performance back in the theatre after the Covid-19 shutdown was as a last-minute emergency cover for Henry Higgins in Lincoln Center Theatre’s national tour of My Fair Lady directed by Bartlett Sher. [28] [29]
In 2022 McCollum completed Secondary Dominance, his first feature film as co-director and co-writer with longtime collaborator Sarah Small. [30]
McCollum is married to artist Noah Jordan. McCollum’s father-in-law is 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Robert Lefkowitz. [31]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Delicate Instruments | Gary | |
| 2009 | Only Time Will Tell | Zach | Short |
| 2017 | Grandpa’s Kaleidescope | The Stranger | Music Video |
| 2017 | Ernest Shackleton Loves Me | Ernest Shackleton and others | |
| 2018 | Options | Stephen Cartwright | Short |
| 2019 | In the Night Room | The Stranger | Music Video |
| 2020 | Blowing Dandelions | The Stranger | Music Video |
| 2022 | Secondary Dominance | The Scientist turn Muse / Dancer | Also co-writer and director |
| TBD | Riding Out the Storm | Bob | Short |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-2014 | Submissions Only | Nolan Grigsby | Web Series |
| 2015 | The Knick | Sydney Carton | HBO max |
| 2017 | Nightcap | Louis Mackie | Pop TV |
| 2019 | At Home with Amy Sedaris | The Skeleton | Pop TV |
| 2019 | Prodigal Son | Angry Man | FOX |
| 2019 | Madame Secretary | Andy | CBS |
| 2022 | FBI Most Wanted | Leon McCann | CBS |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | RSC’s The Shakespeare Revue [5] | Hamlet et al. | US premier |
| 2002 | ONE | Sid | an earlier version of the musical he wrote and co-composed with Eric Nordin. |
| 2003-2005 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig | Regional, with triangle! Theatre and Celebration Theatre |
| 2003 | The Last Five Years | Jamie | West Coast Premier |
| 2003-2004 | The Merchant of Venice | Lancelot Gobbo | with Portland Center Stage |
| 2003-2004 | Bat Boy: The Musical | Bat Boy | with Portland Center Stage |
| 2004 | On the Verge | Mary | |
| 2005 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Frank -n- Furter | Regional |
| 2006 | I Am My Own Wife | Charlotte et al. | Regional |
| 2006 | Metamorphoses [32] | Phaeton/Ceyx | with Artists Repertory Theatre |
| 2006 | Assassins [33] | Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald | with Artists Repertory Theatre |
| 2007 | Toy Story the Musical [1] | Woody | Disney Development |
| 2007 | Jersey Boys [16] | Norm Waxman | with Chicago Company |
| 2008,2011 | Cabaret [6] | Emcee | Regional, with Dallas Theatre Center |
| 2009-2010 | The Sanataland Diaries | Crumpet | with Portland Center Stage |
| 2010 | Fly By Night | Narrator | World Premier, with Theatreworks in Palo Alto |
| 2010 | Dracula | Dracula | Regional |
| 2010 | Angels In America | Prior Walter | Regional |
| 2011 | The Santaland Diaries | Crumpet et al | Regional |
| 2011 | Dying City | Peter/Craig | Regional |
| 2012 | Priscilla Queen of the Desert | Tick/Mitzi | US National Tour |
| 2013 | Triassic Parq | Velociraptor of Faith | Off- Broadway |
| 2014 | Wicked | Witch’s Father | Broadway |
| 2015-2017 | Ernest Shackleton Loves Me | Ernest Shackleton et al | Off-Broadway (World Premier) |
| 2018 | It Happened in Key West | Carl Von Cosel | West End (World Premier) |
| 2018 | The Carpenter | Gene | Regional (World Premier) |
| 2019 | A Welcome Guest [34] | Shimeus | Regional (World Premier) |
| 2019-2022 | My Fair Lady | Karpathy/Henry Higgins | US National Tour |
| 2022 | Make Me Gorgeous: The Kenneth Marlowe Story | Kenneth et al. | |
| 2024 | Water for Elephants | Wade | Broadway |
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Drammy Award [35] | Best Actor in a Musical | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Won |
| 2003 | Drammy Award [36] | Best Actor in a Musical | Batboy | Won |
| 2004 | Ovation Awards [8] | Best Actor in a Musical | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Nominated |
| 2004 | Backstage West’s Garland Award [37] | Best Actor in a Musical | Won | |
| 2004 | Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award [10] | Best Actor in a Musical | Won | |
| 2011 | Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum AwardDrama Critic’s Circle Award [38] | Best Actor in a Musical | Cabaret | Won |
| 2016 | Boston Theatre Critic’s Association Elliot Norton Award [21] | Best Actor in a Musical | Ernest Shackleton Loves Me | Won |
| 2017 | Lucille Lortel Award [18] | Best Actor in a Musical | Nominated | |
| 2024 | Off-Broadway Alliance Award [39] | Best Solo Performance | Make Me Gorgeous! | Won |
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