Stephen Trask

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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 two 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. In addition, he scored the 2003 movies "Camp" and "The Station Agent".cite web |title=Fresh stage directions: a new year brings a wealth of new theater choices of special interest to lesbian and gay audiences coast-to-coast |work=The Advocate |date=2003-02-04 |first=Gerard |last=Raymond |accessdate=2007-04-12 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Feb_4/ai_97175020/pg_2]

Trask performed with Yoko Ono on July 14, 2007 at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL.citation |title=Pitchfork Music Festival: Day 2 |date=2007-07-15 |url=http://www.shoutmouth.com/index.php/news/22001 |accessdate=2007-09-13 |periodical=ShoutMouth.com]

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* [http://stephentrask.net/bio.html stephentrask.net] biography
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* [http://www.stephentrask.com stephentrask.com] official web page