Damien Atkins

Damien Atkins is an actor and playwright from Canada who was born in Australia and brought up in St. Albert, Alberta. Following his studies in musical theater at Grant MacEwan College and an appearance for Canadian Stage in Into the Woods, he moved to Toronto. His first play, miss chatelaine, ran at the Edmonton Fringe Festival before being staged at Theatre Passe-Muraille, and Good Mother, premiered at the Stratford Festival in 2001, earned him the Elliott Hayes Playwright Development Award and made him the youngest playwright with a new work there. Later plays include Lucy, The Gay Heritage Project, and We Are Not Alone. On screen, he has appeared in Take This Waltz (2011) and The Matthew Shepard Story (2002). He has received ten Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations and four wins, including two for Real Live Girl, both Doras for London Road in 2014, and a Jessie Richardson Award for Angels in America.