About Stephen Collins
Actor – Educator/Lecturer – Tour Guide
My Story
Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations.
The newest addition to his repertoire is a one-man show “Sailing Towards My Father” by Carl A. Rossi. Stephen performed the show on August 1st at Arrowhead, Pittsfield MA, where Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick. See letter from Peter Bergstrom, Director of Arrowhead.
Prior to Melville performance, Stephen performed as James McNeil Whistler in another play by Carl A. Rossi, entitled, “Butterfly”.
He also works as a professionally licensed tour guide doing narrated historical tours of Boston. His Whitman performances have taken him all over the country. He now has eight one-man shows and seven courses where his teaching style has been described as a hybrid between lecture and performance.
What People Are Saying
My residents love anything he does!
Mary Petrino – Activities, Norumbega Point at Weston (781) 899-5505
Great performer, maybe a better teacher, also a damn good tour guide.
Polly Hornstein – Activities, The Willows (508) 898 3490
Stephen knows what it takes and how to work with this population.
Annette Carrira – Activities, The Gables at Winchester (781) 756-1026
I’m still hearing rave reviews from those that saw your stunning performance!
Ruth Yonan Iyengar – Chair, Big Arts on the Stage, Sanibel Florida (239) 395-0900
I certainly plan to take the student’s advice and invite you back to Lenox next year.
William J. Irvin, Ph.D., Lennox Memorial High School
I was simply blown away with your performance. A tour de force!
Michael Robertson, English Department, College of New Jersey
Compliments are still flying around here about your performance as Walt Whitman…. People felt you indeed did bring the great poet – and human being – to life on our museum stage that night. …Thanks again for a fine evening of theater and a chance to get to know a great American poet.
Pamela Avila Lewis, Manager of Visitor Services and Volunteers, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Sandwich, MA
Compliments are still flying around here about your performance as Walt Whitman…. People felt you indeed did bring the great poet – and human being – to life on our museum stage that night. …Thanks again for a fine evening of theater and a chance to get to know a great American poet.
-Pamela Avila Lewis, Manager of Visitor Services and Volunteers, Heritage Museum and Gardens, Sandwich, MA