Wade McCollum

Wade McCollum is an American film actor, stage actor and composer/musician.

Wade can currently be seen as Gene in The Carpenter the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.

Wade performed the role of Ernest Shackleton Loves Me as Ernest Shackleton, on off-Broadway.

Previously, he was in Wicked on Broadway, and starred as "Tick/Mitzi" in the first national tour of the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert.In 2012 Wade was seen Off Broadway as the Velociraptor of Faith in Triassic Parq - the musical.

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 (Silicon Valley) 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 McCollum has been seen as Jeffrey in Jeffrey at the Sage Theatre and as Nestor le Fripe in Irma la Douce at Musicals Tonight. In Los Angeles he 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 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.

As a composer, McCollum's musical ONE played in New York City. It then went on to be workshopped further at Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Black Swan Lab.

McCollum can be seen in the BroadwayWorld.com web series Submissions Only as director Nolan Grigsby and in the BroadwayHD capture of Ernest Shackleton Loves Me.

With Submissions Only

Nolan Grigsby in Submissions Only 2011/12

Broadway/Tour

• Witches Father u/s Wizard and Dillamond Wicked
• Tick/Mitzi in Priscilla Queen of the Desert first national tour
• Norm Waxman in the San Francisco/Chicago company of Jersey Boys

Off Broadway

Velociraptor of Faith in Triassic Parq- 2012

Ernest Shackleton and others in Ernest Shackleton Loves Me 2017

With IRT and GEVA theatres

Dracula in Dracula 2011

With Theatreworks in Palo Alto

• The Narrator in the World Premier of Fly by Night 2011

With Dallas Theatre Center

• the Emcee in Cabaret 2011

With Portland Center Stage

• The Emcee in Cabaret (2007/2008 season)
• 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)
• Crumpet in The Sanataland Diaries 2009/10
• Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (2003/2004 season)

With Artists Repertory Theatre

• Phaeton/Ceyx in Metamorphoses
• Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins

With triangle! Theatre and Celebration Theatre

• Hedwig/Tommy Gnosis in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Other theaters

• Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show
• Mary in On the Verge
• Sid ONE, an earlier version of the musical he wrote and co-composed with Eric Nordin.

• 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