Courtenay Stevens
Performance
I grew up in a bucolic setting tucked in the southern corner of British Columbia with the Rocky Mountains as the backdrop. Beautiful! And I couldn’t wait to leave. I graduated high school and two months later was off to Vancouver to become an actor. Only now do I recognize how lucky I was growing up in the woods; the daydreaming and made-up games fostered my imagination. Also, those mountains are spectacular.
Since then I went to theatre school (Studio 58) and studied with many other teachers along the way in theatre, film, clown and mime. I’ve travelled all over the world with different plays and circus shows including Cirque du Soleil and I now call Toronto home. I often work in ‘physical theatre’ and as a ‘clown’ and both of those terms are confusing to me, so let’s just say I have an affinity for play, physicality and silly things when I work.