Wade McCollum
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Wade McCollum is a American film actor, stage actor and 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 who was a drummer for a number of bands including Foolish Pleasure, Reflections, and Tracer. Over the past ten years, McCollum has honed his skills in the theatre by performing, playwriting, composing and producing. McCollum attended the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has performed with professional and regional theatres such as Utah Shakespearean Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Willamette Repertory Theatre, triangle! Theatre, Celebration Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre and most recently for Portland Center Stage. He is also the co-founder and artistic director of Insight Out Theatre Collective [1].
In 2005, McCollum toured his music with Holcombe Waller to New York City, Los Angeles and Portland. McCollum has recently completed his first album Beauty is a Streetlight, directed his first TV pilot and is currently planning the next production/workshop of ONE, the rock musical he has been working on for many years.
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[edit] Selected roles
[edit] With Portland Center Stage
- Charlotte von Mahlsdorf (and all other roles) in I Am My Own Wife (2006/2007 season)
- Bat Boy, in Bat Boy: The Musical (2003/2004 season)
- Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (2003/2004 season)
[edit] With Artists Repertory Theatre
- Phaeton/Ceyx in Metamorphoses
- Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins
[edit] With triangle! Theatre
- Hedwig/Tommy Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
[edit] Other theaters
- Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show
- Mary in On the Verge
- Sid in his own play ONE, the musical he wrote and co-composed with Eric Nordin.
[edit] 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 Actor in a Musical in 2004
- BackStage West Garland Award – Best Lead Performance in 2004
