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John Waters
Writing & Creativity
John Waters is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist known for transgressive cult films and mainstream successes such as Hairspray.
Biography
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist who rose to fame in the early 1970s for transgressive cult films including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, and Female Trouble. His later films include Desperate Living, Polyester, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented, and the 1988 comedy Hairspray, which he wrote and directed.
As an actor he has appeared in films such as Sweet and Lowdown, Mangus!, Excision, Suburban Gothic and Seed of Chucky, and in the third season of the television series Chucky. He hosted and produced John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You. Waters also works as a visual artist across installations, photography, and sculpture, narrated audiobooks that earned Grammy nominations, was named an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2018, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Books by John Waters
Make Trouble
Make Trouble collects and expands the viral 2015 Rhode Island School of Design commencement speech by John Waters into a manifesto offering sly, subversive advice to artists and creative people, urging them to embrace chaos, be nosy, and defy critics.