Actor and playwright Damien Atkins has worked at major theatres across Canada and the U.S. Recent credits include Prior Walter in Soulpepper’s acclaimed production of Angels in America, Alfie in London Road (Canadian Stage), Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Outside the March) and The Gay Heritage Project (Buddies - NOW Magazine’s #1 Show of 2013). Other selected credits: Sextet (Tarragon), Beatrice & Virgil (Factory), Someone Else (Crow’s Theatre), The Cat in the Hat in Seussical (YPT/The Citadel), I Am My Own Wife (Dallas Theater Center); Mozart in Amadeus and The Emcee in Cabaret (Segal Centre); Witwoud in The Way of the World, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest, Aston in The Caretaker and King Lear (Soulpepper); Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Shopping and Fucking (Crow’s Theatre); Jack in the Canadian Premiere of Into the Woods, The Beadle in Sweeney Todd, Amadeus, Frost/Nixon, 7 Stories (The Canadian Stage Co.); Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Canadian Stage/Segal Centre); Schippel the Plumber (The Grand Theatre); Brad Fraser's Young Art  (Theatre Network); Charlie in the Canadian Premiere of Merrily We Roll Along for Leave it to Jane Theatre; and Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night for the Globe Theatre, Festival of Classics, and the Stratford/CBC Radio Series. Damien is also a member of the award-winning theatrefront Ensemble, with whom he has performed Our Country's Good and Mojo. Additional credits include the films Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley), Angel Square (Anne Wheeler), and The Art of Woo, as well as Slings and Arrows (TMN/Sundance), Saving Hope (CTV), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Children of My Heart (CBC), I Was a Rat (BBC), The Matthew Shepard Story (NBC), The Eleventh Hour (CTV), Our Fathers (Showtime), and This is Wonderland (CBC). Damien is the author of six plays, starting with miss chatelaine (Theatre Passe Muraille/The Grand). His second play, Good Mother won the $25 000 UBC Creative Writing Dept./Prism International Prize for 2000 and received its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2001, under the direction of Miles Potter and starring Seana McKenna. He is the youngest playwright ever to be produced at the Stratford Festival. Real Live Girl premiered at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto in December 2001 to rave reviews and an extended run, and was remounted in 2003 and 2004. In March of 2007, Lucy opened at Canadian Stage in Toronto and at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City the following October. The Mill, Part Four: Ash, (the fourth and concluding chapter of theatrefront’s award-winning series The Mill) premiered in January of 2011. His latest play, We Are Not Alone premiered in Montreal in February 2015, under the direction of Chris Abraham and Christian Barry. Good Mother, Lucy, and Ash have all been published by Playwrights Canada Press. Damien been Playwright in Residence at the Canadian Stage Co. and Crow’s Theatre, and a Guest Instructor at the National Theatre School. In 2013, Damien received the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actor for Angels in America, as well as five Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, including Best Actor in a Play (Angels in America), Best Actor in a Musical (London Road) and Best New Play (The Gay Heritage Project). He has received nine Dora Award nominations in total for acting and writing, winning four - including Best Actor in a Musical for both Real Live Girl and London Road.