Damien Atkins

Damien Atkins is a Canadian actor and playwright.

Early life and education Born in Australia and raised in St. Albert, Alberta, and moved to Toronto after appearing in a Canadian Stage production of Into the Woods. following a successful run at the Edmonton Fringe Festival before having its official premiere that season. In 2001, he premiered Good Mother, starring Seana McKenna, at the Stratford Festival of Canada.

Good Mother won the Elliott Hayes Playwright Development Award from the Stratford Festival and the Prism International Prize from the University of British Columbia,

His fourth play, Lucy, premiered at Canadian Stage in March 2007, and was later staged at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City in October 2007.

His fifth play, The Mill, Part Four: Ash, was the fourth part of The Mill tetralogy produced by theatrefront. The other writers involved in The Mill were Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch and Tara Beagan.

In 2013, Buddies in Bad Times staged The Gay Heritage Project, a play in which Atkins and cocreators Andrew Kushnir and Paul Dunn dramatized various scenes investigating the notion of a heritage that is particular to gay people.

In February 2015, Atkins premiered his newest solo show, We Are Not Alone, at the Segal Centre in Montreal, in a co-production between The Segal Centre and Toronto's Crow's Theatre.

Acting In addition to some of his own plays, Atkins has appeared in many productions across Canada and the U.S. Selected credits include: Hosanna, The Heidi Chronicles, A Doll's House, I Am My Own Wife, The Retreat From Moscow, Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, Sextet, Beatrice & Virgil, Unidentified Human Remains..., Someone Else, Seussical, Frost/Nixon, Angels in America, Shopping and Fucking,

He was nominated for the Dora for Outstanding New Play, but did not win, in 2007 for Lucy.

He was nominated for a Dora for Best Actor in a Musical in 2011 for Seussical.

In 2014, he was nominated for five Doras in one evening (Best Actor in a Play for Angels in America: Perestroika, Best Actor in a Musical for London Road, Best Ensemble for The Gay Heritage Project, Best New Play (with Andrew Kushnir and Paul Dunn) for The Gay Heritage Project and Best Ensemble of a Musical for London Road). He won both Doras for London Road.

That same year he won the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Actor for Angels in America.

He has also been nominated for Montreal's Masque Award (Best Actor for The Glass Menagerie) MECCA award (Best Actor for Geometry in Venice) and META awards (Best Actor and Best New Play for We Are Not Alone).

In 2017, Atkins won the Jessie Richardson Award for Best Actor for Angels in America (Arts Club, Vancouver).

Filmography

Film

Television