Stephen Atkins, BA Theatre/Art History, MFA Theatre/Film (SFU) has performed, taught and directed in Brisbane, Melbourne, Vancouver, Calgary and Lethbridge. He was a founding member of the Tooba Physical Theatre Centre and is currently the Artistic Director of Human Theatre and Associate Artist with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre. Stephen is also a faculty member of Capilano College in the Acting for Stage and Screen Program and the Musical Theatre Program where he teaches Voice, Acting, Improvisation & Mask, Creative Movement, Styles and Theatre History.

Recent directing credits include The Queens for the University of Lethbridge, The Woman, Forever Yours Mary Lou, Mad Boy Chronicle, Woyzeck, Les Belles Soeurs for Exit22 at Capilano College, Samuel Beckett: 5 Short Pieces for Human Theatre / Zen Zen Zo and Trigger, a collaborative creation.

Writing credits for theatre include Just Measures (1989), Four & Twenty Blackbirds (1992), Black Angels (1997) and Dracula (2007).