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User:Stephen Atkins

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Stephen Atkins.

[edit] About

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I have been a participant in Wikipedia since 2004, wikitravel and World66 since 2005. I have recently become involved in the Wikiversity open learning resource project. I am also starting to develop a wiki-based theatre research project.

Bio: Stephen Atkins, BA Theatre/Art History, MFA Theatre/Film (SFU) has performed and directed in Vancouver, Calgary and Lethbridge. Recent directing credits include The Queens for the University of Lethbridge [1], The Woman, Forever Yours Mary Lou, Mad Boy Chronicle, Woyzeck and Les Belles Souers for Exit22 at Capilano College [2] where he teaches in the Acting for Stage and Screen Program [3] and the Musical Theatre Program [4]. Capilano College is located in Vancouver/North Shore. Stephen is trained in voice for the actor (Linklater/Berry) and Laban. He was a founding member of the Tooba Physical Theatre Centre [5] in Vancouver, BC. Writing credits for theatre include Just Measures (1989), Four & Twenty Blackbirds (1992), Black Angels (1997) and Venom (2006 - in progress). Articles include Virtual Reality and the Actual Performer (CTR 1994), and has contributed several articles (1994-2005) on science fiction, art history, food and travel for trade publications and open-source projects such as Wikipedia, World66 and WWTG [6]. Film work includes a summer of working in the Locations Department for the TV series Psych [7]. Internet experience includes 11 years of website development on projects varying from the HSBC North America site to one of Canada's first television/internet sites.

Current: Stephen Atkins is a member of the Capilano College Theatre Faculty where he teaches Voice, Acting, Improvisation & Mask, Creative Movement, Styles and Theatre History. He is currently on leave to intern with the physical theatre company Zen Zen Zo in Brisbane, Australia.

[edit] News

Will be posting from Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland Jan - Sep 2007. I will also be blogging notes for my students from our seminar discussions on Peter Brook, Tadashi Suzuki, Jerzy Grotowski and Anne Bogart. It will be open to anyone, if interested, please view the blog at humantheatre.ca [8].

[edit] Places I've been

I have had some great travel experiences and am a firm believer in "coloring outside the lines". Everything familiar to you was strange once.

[edit] Canada

[edit] British Columbia

I have had the pleasure of seeing quite a bit of this amazing province because I was a touring actor in a childrens' theatre company where we did about 200 performances over most of a year. We toured our shows to schools all over the interior and as far north as the Alaskan panhandle. We went to some communities with no roads, you had to fly in by float plane (packing set, props and costumes along!!). The scenery was spectacular, we felt grateful to be constantly surrounded by things that tourists would pay thousands to see. But after appreciating the look of the mountain or valley, we had to get into our van or plane and cross the bloody thing. I guess part of the beauty of the wilderness is it the challenge it presents. If you are ever here, you have to see Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Okanagan Valley. For real out-doorsy experiences, go up the north coast to Bella Coola or out to Tofino on Vancouver Island. Out there, the sun sets on the wild, open Pacific. There is some fine dining on the island too at Sooke Harbour House.

[edit] Alberta

Alberta is an oil-rich prairie province. Many US and Canadian companies have their head offices in my home town of Calgary. There is a lot of rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton, in everything from hockey to who has the best shopping mall. Check out Lethbridge and environs for a country-western experience. Drumheller's badlands are a great family get-away because of the paleontology museums and fossil exhibits. Who doesn't like dinosaurs?

[edit] Ontario

Toronto, Ottawa.

[edit] Quebec

Montreal.

[edit] USA

[edit] Washington State

Seattle, Bellingham, Olympia, Tacoma & Gig Harbour, Pasco (for the chile pepper festival).

[edit] Montana, Idaho and Wyoming

Mostly camped there and walked around Yellowstone National Park.

[edit] Illinois

Chicago.

[edit] New York

New York City and worked on contract in Buffalo for about three months.

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Jalisco

Thanks to incredible friends who live there, I have been able to make many visits to Puerto Vallarta and the surrounding towns. It is very close to a state and time zone border, which you cross on the way to neigbouring Nayita where we normally have our Christmas dinner. Making restaurant reservations is challenging when you have to take into account travel time and a time zone change.