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name: "Stephen Trask"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-trask"
fi1m_id: "stephen-trask"
imdb_id: "nm0871136"
tmdb_id: 21266
wikidata_id: "Q111572"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "29 August 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:49:39.358715+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Stephen Trask

## Identity

Stephen Trask

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-trask
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-trask
- **IMDb ID:** nm0871136
- **TMDB ID:** 21266
- **Wikidata ID:** Q111572
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Trask, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111572, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21266

Composer. Born 29 August 1966 in USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 29 August 1966, USA
- **Also known as:** Stephen R. Schwartz
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Trask, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111572, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871136/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21266

## Biography

Stephen Trask (born Stephen R. Schwartz, 29 August 1966) is an American composer and musician. He graduated from Wesleyan University and was music director and a member of the house band at the New York City club Squeezebox.

Trask composed the music and lyrics for the stage musical *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (1998), which received an Obie Award, and its 2001 film adaptation, for which he received a Grammy nomination. He scored the films *Camp* (2003) and *The Station Agent* (2003).

He has collaborated on multiple films with director Paul Weitz, including *In Good Company* (2004), *American Dreamz* (2006) and *Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant* (2009). A Broadway revival of *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* opened in 2014 and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

*Sources: imdb.com, musicbrainz.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Station Agent* (2003), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-station-agent.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Heaven Above Rowen* (2026), Original Music Composer, Producer, Sound Designer, Sound Mixer
- *tick, tick... BOOM!* (2021), as Aspiring Composers and Lyricists — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/tick-tick-boom.md)
- *John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: Nation of One* (2021), Original Music Composer, Sound Mixer, Writer, Musician, Vocals, Producer
- *Match* (2014), Original Music Composer
- *Lovelace* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Admission* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *So Undercover* (2012), Original Music Composer
- *Little Fockers* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *The Back-Up Plan* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Sex Drive* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *The Savages* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Feast of Love* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *In the Land of Women* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *American Dreamz* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *In Good Company* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *50 Ways to Leave Your Lover* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *A Hole in One* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Chrystal* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *The Station Agent* (2003), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-station-agent.md)
- *Prey for Rock & Roll* (2003), Music Arranger, Additional Music, Music
- *Wuthering Heights* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig* (2003), Music
- *Camp* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (2001), as Skszp · Musical, Original Music Composer, Songs
- *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* (1998), Actor

## Gallery

- ![At the Broadway opening of "Hedwig" (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/98228/gallery-6e336b1f8e46.png) At the Broadway opening of "Hedwig" (2019) — Stephentrask, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Hedwig_Opening_Night.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![At the Hedwig Times Talk (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/98228/gallery-6758c4030156.png) At the Hedwig Times Talk (2019) — Stephentrask, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/NY_Times_Talk.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Stephen Trask](https://film.one/media/person/98228/gallery-4218d4c90940.jpg) Stephen Trask — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stephen_Trask_at_the_2008_Tribeca_Film_Festival.JPG/1280px-Stephen_Trask_at_the_2008_Tribeca_Film_Festival.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stephen Trask at the premiere of Squeezebox! at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/98228/gallery-34e1e69d0898.jpg) Stephen Trask at the premiere of Squeezebox! at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. — David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Stephen_Trask_by_David_Shankbone.JPG/1280px-Stephen_Trask_by_David_Shankbone.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stephen Trask](https://film.one/media/person/98228/gallery-32b0a93d5dc5.jpg) Stephen Trask — Image via TMDB

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