Tony Award-winning actor and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell is returning to drag this spring for a stint as Mary Lincoln Todd in Broadway's Oh, Mary!
The last time Mitchell appeared on Broadway was a decade ago for a Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a musical based on characters created by Mitchell and later turned into a 2001 movie he directed and starred in. The 2014 revival won Mitchell a Special Tony Award.
"Cole Escola and [director] Sam Pinkleton are the wild horses that dragged me back to drag and I couldn't be happier!" Mitchell said in a statement, according to People.
"As the most mature Mary yet, my days are filled with working the StairMaster, mainlining Ozempic and mastering my Brilliant Dialogue. 'Line?!'" the 62-year-old joked.
"Thank you, Cole, may I do you proud mangling your classic."The role of Todd has been played by a rotating cast of actors, including Tituss Burgess, Betty Gilpin, Hannah Solow, Jinkx Monsoon and the current Mary, Jane Krakowski, whose rune ends Jan. 4.
Pinkleton, who won a Tony for directing the play, said Mitchell's addition to that roster "feels both delicious and somehow inevitable."
Mitchell most recently appeared on TV in the Apple TV+ crime drama City on Fire and the HBO hit Yellowjackets.
