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The fearless mind behind Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus is bringing boundary-smashing chaos to FODI this August. Tickets go on sale with the full program announce in June.

John Cameron Mitchell

JUST BE PUNK
Coming to Festival of Dangerous Ideas in August 2026

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In this ferocious, funny and unfiltered masterclass, John Cameron Mitchell invites you to ditch the performance of rebellion and step into the real thing. A call for a new generation, and those that may have forgotten, to “stop playing it safe”. He sees punk as action: messy, collective and defiantly alive.
Punk isn’t (just) a look. It’s a refusal. A choice: community over clout, risk over reputation, noise over silence. It demands you to show up, speak out and sometimes get it wrong. Because change doesn’t happen quietly, and it never happens alone.
Expect to shut the fuck up and listen, and then participate in the conversation without fear of cancellation.

 

“Your homework is to stop cancelling each other, find out about punk, and get laid while you’re at it.” 

– JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL

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John Cameron Mitchell [USA]

John wrote/directed/starred in the musical/film Hedwig and the Angry Inch for which he won two Tony Awards, Best Director at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. He directed the films Shortbus (2006); Rabbit Hole (2010, Best Actress Oscar nomination for Nicole Kidman); and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) starring Kidman and Elle Fanning. On Broadway, he’s also starred in Oh Mary!, The Secret Garden, Big River and Six Degrees of Separation. TV roles: Girls, Shrill, The Good Fight, The Sandman, Yellowjackets, City on Fire and as the “Tiger King” in Joe Vs Carole. His fictional podcast series are: Anthem: Homunculus starring Glenn Close and Cynthia Erivo and Cancellation Island starring Holly Hunter. He is developing a play about anti-Nazi artist Claude Cahun, feature films based on the lives of Allen Ginsberg and AIDS activist Peter Staley, and a memoir entitled A Heart Held Outside the Body. 

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