Nate (he/him) is a stage, film, and voice actor. Born and raised in Ellsworth, Maine, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Bates College, double majoring in Theater and French and Francophone Studies.

While at Bates, Stephenson trained at the Moscow Art Theater School in preparation for his honors thesis performance Diary of a Madman, a one man show adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s original text by himself and Senior Lecturer Katalin Vecsey. The show was selected to perform at the Region 1 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Danbury, CT, where it received several special recognitions including Distinguished Production of a New Work, a Merit Award for Script Adaptation, and The Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Award, bestowed “for insisting that theatrical production is central to the urgent community, national and international conversations on the campuses of higher education nationwide”.

He proceeded to launch his professional career in Boston, joining Playwrights Platform’s actor-in-residence program in early 2020, and apprenticing as a sound engineer at Amador Bilingual Voiceovers in Cambridge, until the COVID-19 pandemic returned him to Ellsworth. As theaters reopened and performance opportunities reappeared, Nate began the current stage of his career in Portland, Maine, quickly finding footing in the city’s tightly-knit community, a hallmark of the state he loves so dearly.