Stephen Trask

Stephen Trask is an American musician and composer who graduated from Wesleyan University He was the music director and house band member at the NYC club Squeezebox where they performed with stars such as Debbie Harry Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone Trask composed the music and lyrics for the stage musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch also a 2001 film about a struggling rock star named Hedwig Trasks reallife band Cheater performed as Hedwigs band The Angry Inch He received an Obie Award for the play and a Grammy Award nomination for the movie In 2014 the show saw its first Broadway incarnation opening that April at the Belasco Theatre and winning the years Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The production closed on September 13 2015 A national tour of the show began at San Franciscos Golden Gate Theatre on October 2 2016 Trask has worked on five films with filmmaker Paul Weitz He composed the score for 2004s In Good Company and 2006s American Dreamz for which they also cowrote the numerous songs the contestants sing as well as the 2009 film Cirque du Freak The Vampires Assistant Trask also scored the 2003 films Camp and The Station Agent as well as Dreamgirls 2006 In the Land of Women 2007 The Savages 2007 and The Backup Plan 2010 among other works He scored the 2010 film Little Fockers a sequel to both Meet the Parents 2000 and Meet the Fockers 2004 In 2013 Trask scored the films Lovelace directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman and Admission directed by Paul Weitz Imdb Wikipedia mini bio by yusufpiskin