Will Atkins is a NYC based actor & performer.
Heavily inspired by his movement practices, Will creates body based performance work, incorporating elements of butoh, movement, BDSM, shibari rope bondage, hook suspension, and body modification.
In 2021 he created a visual project “L’école Buissonnière,” which was featured by Kaltblut Magazine.
In 2019 he premiered his butoh solo La Sangre, winning Best Experimental Piece at the United Solo Awards.
He studies regularly with the New York Butoh Institute, and has worked with Vangeline Theater as a production manager and assistant on select projects, including Vangeline's Eclipse/Butoh Beethoven in Santiago, Chile at the 3rd International Butoh Festival, as well as the New York Butoh Institute Festival 18. Will has trained in Butoh with Vangeline, Katsura Kan, Yumiko Yoshioka, Testsuro Fukuhara, and Mari Osani. December of 2018 marks his third participation in the Queer Butoh festival, and other performances include creating solo pieces Onryu, Ameircan Witch, and Mutant for WalkUpArts events, and Sophie Amieva's 2018 Medusa.
In April of 2018, Will attended the Ido Portal Movement Camp in Thailand, 2019’s European Movement Meeting, and has since kept up his movement practice at the NYC Movement Company.
He has been lucky enough to work with several costume artists in NYC, including Art by Davey, Uta Bekia, and more recently, Pissy Pussy's 2019 New York Fashion Week event.
In 2017 he appeared in Esperanza Spalding's Virgin Writes at Pioneer Works.
