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DAMIEN ATKINS |
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Nationality: Canadian/Australian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Great North Artists (Agent: Rena Zimmerman) |
Actor and playwright Damien Atkins was born in Australia and grew up in Edmonton. As an actor, he has worked at major theatres across Canada and the U.S. He is the author and performer of two solo shows: "miss chatelaine", and "Real Live Girl". Other plays include "Good Mother", "Lucy", and "The Mill, Part Four: Ash". His plays have been produced at the Canadian Stage Co., Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times (Toronto), The Grand Theatre (London), The Manitoba Theatre Centre (Winnipeg), The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The Delaware Theatre Company, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City. He has been playwright-in-residence at the Canadian Stage Company and The University of British Columbia, and a Guest Instructor at the National Theatre School. Damien is the recipient of a Dora Award nominationfor Best New Play for "Lucy", a Sterling Award for "miss chatelaine", and two Dora Awards for "Real Live Girl". He makes his home in Toronto.
Plays by Damien Atkins
Good Mother | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Stratford Shakespeare Festival | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | PRISM International/Playwrights Canada Press (www.playwrightscanada.com) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0887548536 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1246 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
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| The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother, leaving them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory. Touching and powerful, "Good Mother" examines the ties that hold a family together and the crises that draw them apart. | |||||
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Lucy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74745 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Subsequently produced by The Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York), and The Delaware Theatre Company (Wilmington). | |||||
| A world-renowned and much-respected anthropologist, Vivian is most comfortable in her world of quiet solitude, balking at even the smallest of interactions with the outside world. Her life is abruptly changed, however, when her ex-husband shows up and asks Vivian to reassume custody of their thirteen-year-old autistic daughter, Lucy, while he settles in with his new wife. Overwhelmed by the particulars of Lucy's care and unable at first to connect with her daughter, Vivian soon realizes that she and Lucy are more alike than she ever could have expected - a revelation that has powerful and disturbing consequences. | |||||
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Miss Chatelaine | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Grand Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Canada Press | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1247 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The story of a 20 year old young man growing up in Alberta, getting ready for his first date with another man. "Miss Chatelaine" takes a uniquely youthful view of what it is like to come of age near the end of the millennium. | |||||
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Real Live Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Buddies in Bad Times | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1248 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A one man musical cabaret featuring songs and monologues written for women. An irreverent look at the woman inside every man. | |||||
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