| Damien Atkins is a playwright and actor whose performing credits include 4 years at the Stratford Festival, and productions at Soulpepper, CanStage, Theatre Calgary, The Grand Theatre, The Manitoba Theatre Centre, and The Dallas Theater Center. Playwriting credits include Miss Chatelaine (The Grand Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille), Real Live Girl (Buddies in Bad Times/MTC/The Grand), the adaptation (with Marjorie Chan) of Hisashi Inoue's play In The Garden, Two Suns for Crow's Theatre, and Good Mother (Stratford Festival). He is the youngest playwright ever produced by the Stratford Festival. For Good Mother, Damien received the $25,000 PRISM/UBC Creative Writing Residency Prize; for Real Live Girl he received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards: Best Actor in a Musical and Outstanding New Musical. His new play, Lucy opened at Canadian Stage in 2007 and was nominated for two Doras, including Outstanding New Play. He is currently at work on The Mill for Theatrefront.
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