Wade McCollum
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Wade McCollum is an American film actor, stage actor and composer/musician, and is a member of the Actors' Equity Association
and Screen Actors Guild
. He currently resides and appears in Los Angeles, CA and New York, New York.
McCollum grew up on the road, traveling with his father, Michael McCollum, who was a drummer for a number of bands including Foolish Pleasure, Reflections, and Tracer. He also spent a considerable amount of his childhood living in Ashland Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
.
McCollum has been performing professionally all of the country since 1997. McCollum attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts
and has performed in Jersey Boys
(Chicago company) and with theatres such as Dallas Theatre Center, Utah Shakespearean Festival
, Theatreworks
in Palo Alto, Indiana Repertory Theatre
, GEVA theatre, Syracuse Stage
, The Fulton Opera House, Artists Repertory Theatre
, Portland Center Stage
, Portland Playhouse. In New York Wade has been seen as Jeffrey in Jeffrey at the Sage Theatre and as Nestor le Fripe in Irma la Duece at Musicals Tonight, as well as in concerts and cabarets at various venues throughout the city: The Cutting Room
, The Duplex
,
In Los Angeles Wade was seen as Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch
" for which he garnered the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Backstage's Garland Award for Best actor and won an Ovation Award for best Musical.
McCollum has recently completed his first album Beauty is a Streetlight
Wade is featured in the Short Film Only Time Will Tell Written by Matt Gould and DJ Salisbury and DIrected by Greg Levins The film was created for the 2010 Ripfest
film festival.
Since 2002, RIPFEST
has provided an outlet for some of New York and LA’s brightest filmmaking and theatrical talents, allowing both established and up-and-coming artists to collaborate on professional-quality short films over a 16-day process. RIPFEST
is a unique collaborative filmmaking project that allows filmmakers the freedom to do what they do best – just make films.
Watch the short film HERE.
As a composer Wade's musical ONE played at 59 e 59th st in NYC. It then went on to be workshopped further at Oregon Shakepeare Festivals prestigious Black Swan Lab. Wade is currently working on two shows "ONE the musical" with Kristin Steele and "Starfest" with Mario Farwell
Actors' Equity Association
The Actors' Equity Association , commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or...
and Screen Actors Guild
Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
. He currently resides and appears in Los Angeles, CA and New York, New York.
McCollum grew up on the road, traveling with his father, Michael McCollum, who was a drummer for a number of bands including Foolish Pleasure, Reflections, and Tracer. He also spent a considerable amount of his childhood living in Ashland Oregon, home of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October...
.
McCollum has been performing professionally all of the country since 1997. McCollum attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts
The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts is a community college located at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California. This institution on California’s Central Coast not only provides professional theatre year round but also trains acting and technical artisans for careers in the...
and has performed in Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...
(Chicago company) and with theatres such as Dallas Theatre Center, Utah Shakespearean Festival
Utah Shakespearean Festival
The Utah Shakespeare Festival is a festival of repertory productions of the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists. The Festival is held during the summer and fall on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah.-Awards:...
, Theatreworks
TheatreWorks
TheatreWorks may refer to:*TheatreWorks *TheatreWorks *TheatreWorks *Theatreworks *Theatreworks *Theatreworks USA*TheaterWorks...
in Palo Alto, Indiana Repertory Theatre
Indiana Repertory Theatre
-History:Indiana Repertory Theatre, frequently abbreviated IRT, is a theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana that began as a genuine repertory theatre with its casts performing in multiple shows at once. It has subsequently become a regional theatre and a member of the League of Resident Theatres...
, GEVA theatre, Syracuse Stage
Syracuse Stage
Syracuse Stage is a professional non-profit theatre company in Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. It is the premier professional theatre in Central New York. It was founded in 1974 by Arthur Storch, who was its first artistic director. The company grew out of the Syracuse Repertory Theatre that was...
, The Fulton Opera House, Artists Repertory Theatre
Artists Repertory Theatre
Artists Repertory Theatre is a critically acclaimed professional non-profit theatre located in Portland, Oregon. The company was established in 1982 and focuses on presenting the works of contemporary playwrights, including many world premieres...
, Portland Center Stage
Portland Center Stage
Portland Center Stage is a theater company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. Theater productions are presented at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland's Pearl District. PCS was founded in 1988 as the northern sibling of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon...
, Portland Playhouse. In New York Wade has been seen as Jeffrey in Jeffrey at the Sage Theatre and as Nestor le Fripe in Irma la Duece at Musicals Tonight, as well as in concerts and cabarets at various venues throughout the city: The Cutting Room
The Cutting Room
The Cutting Room is an intimate music venue in New York City that opened in late 1999 for music of all varieties.It is co-owned since 1999 by Chris Noth and Berklee College of Music alumnus Steve Walter....
, The Duplex
The Duplex
The Duplex is a comic strip by Glenn McCoy, published by Universal Press from 1993. The Duplex has been published in numerous newspapers as daily comic strips and on the Internet. A collection of strips is also available in the form of a comic album...
,
In Los Angeles Wade was seen as Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The musical premiered in 1998 and has been performed throughout the world in hundreds...
" for which he garnered the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Backstage's Garland Award for Best actor and won an Ovation Award for best Musical.
McCollum has recently completed his first album Beauty is a Streetlight
Wade is featured in the Short Film Only Time Will Tell Written by Matt Gould and DJ Salisbury and DIrected by Greg Levins The film was created for the 2010 Ripfest
RIPfest
RIPFEST collaborative film project is an annual filmmaking project run by a collaborative group of film and television producers and past participants. The organization assigns several teams of filmmakers, and gives them 2 weeks to write, shoot and edit a complete, original short film...
film festival.
Since 2002, RIPFEST
RIPfest
RIPFEST collaborative film project is an annual filmmaking project run by a collaborative group of film and television producers and past participants. The organization assigns several teams of filmmakers, and gives them 2 weeks to write, shoot and edit a complete, original short film...
has provided an outlet for some of New York and LA’s brightest filmmaking and theatrical talents, allowing both established and up-and-coming artists to collaborate on professional-quality short films over a 16-day process. RIPFEST
RIPfest
RIPFEST collaborative film project is an annual filmmaking project run by a collaborative group of film and television producers and past participants. The organization assigns several teams of filmmakers, and gives them 2 weeks to write, shoot and edit a complete, original short film...
is a unique collaborative filmmaking project that allows filmmakers the freedom to do what they do best – just make films.
Watch the short film HERE.
As a composer Wade's musical ONE played at 59 e 59th st in NYC. It then went on to be workshopped further at Oregon Shakepeare Festivals prestigious Black Swan Lab. Wade is currently working on two shows "ONE the musical" with Kristin Steele and "Starfest" with Mario Farwell
With Theatreworks in Palo Alto
- The Narrator in the World Premier of Fly By NightFly by NightFly by Night is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in February 1975.-Music and lyrics:This was the first Rush album to feature drummer Neil Peart. In addition to drumming duties, Peart also took on the job of lyricist by default, leading the band to adopt a more...
2011
With Portland Center Stage
- The Emcee in CabaretCabaret (musical)Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
(2007/2008 season) - Charlotte von MahlsdorfCharlotte von MahlsdorfCharlotte von Mahlsdorf was the founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf.- Early years :...
(and all other roles) in I Am My Own WifeI Am My Own WifeI Am My Own Wife is a play by Doug Wright based on his conversations with German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. The one-man play premiered Off-Broadway in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons. It opened on Broadway later that year. The play was developed with Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic...
(2006/2007 season) - Bat Boy, in Bat Boy: The MusicalBat Boy: The MusicalBat Boy: The Musical is a musical with a book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe, based on a June 23, 1992 Weekly World News story about a half-boy, half-bat, dubbed "Bat Boy", found living in a cave....
(2003/2004 season) - Crumpet in "the Sanataland Diaries" 2009/10
- Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
(2003/2004 season)
With Artists Repertory Theatre
- Phaeton/Ceyx in MetamorphosesMetamorphoses (play)Metamorphoses is a play by American playwright Mary Zimmerman adapted from the classic Ovid poem, Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago...
- Balladeer/Lee Harvey OswaldLee Harvey OswaldLee Harvey Oswald was, according to four government investigations,These were investigations by: the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the Warren Commission , the House Select Committee on Assassinations , and the Dallas Police Department. the sniper who assassinated John F...
in AssassinsAssassins (musical)Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. It uses the premise of a murderous carnival game to produce a revue-style portrayal of men and women who attempted to assassinate Presidents of the United States...
With triangle! Theatre and Celebration Theatre
- Hedwig/Tommy Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry InchHedwig and the Angry Inch (musical)Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The text is by John Cameron Mitchell, and the music and lyrics are by Stephen Trask. The musical premiered in 1998 and has been performed throughout the world in hundreds...
Other theaters
- Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror ShowThe Rocky Horror ShowThe Rocky Horror Show is a long-running British horror comedy stage musical, which opened in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, produced and directed by Jim Sharman. It came eighth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the "Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"...
- Mary in On the Verge
- Sid ONE, an earlier version of the musical he wrote and co-composed with Eric Nordin.
- Norm Waxman in the San Francisco/Chicago company of Jersey BoysJersey BoysJersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...
Awards
- Portland Drammy awards for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2003, and again for Bat Boy in 2004
- Los Angeles Drama Critic's Circle - Best Lead Performance for Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2004
- LA Ovation award - Best Musical in 2004
- BackStage West Garland Award – Best Lead Performance in 2004