Nat Cassidy

<h3><strong>Nat Cassidy</strong> is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor, and a sandwich-winning musician.</h3> <p>Born in North Carolina in 1981, and raised in the deserts of Phoenix, Arizona, he received his BFA in Acting/Directing from the University of Arizona in 2004 and a few months thereafter, he moved to New York (thanks to an incredibly generous and fortuitous Professional Potential grant given to him by his university, for which he was the first-ever recipient). He currently resides in Brooklyn.</p> <p>As an actor, Nat has been in over 40 productions since moving to the city, and has been seen onstage at venues such as Lincoln Center, The Cherry Lane, The Public, SoHo Playhouse,&nbsp;Classic Stage Company's East 13th Street Theatre, 59E59, Theatre Row, P.S. 122, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, 45th Street Theatre, and many others.</p> <p>Since 2008, Nat has also begun to make a name for himself as one of New York City&rsquo;s most exciting young playwright/directors, with a reputation for producing bold, intelligent, darkly comic plays with one foot in horror and the other in literary allusion. His work has been seen at venues such as LaMaMa ETC, Theatre Row, The Players Club, The WorkShop Theatre, The Gallery Players, and Manhattan Theatre Source. Academy Award-nominated writer Joan Tewkesbury (Robert Altman&rsquo;s <em>Nasvhille</em> and <em>Thieves Like Us</em>) said of Nat&rsquo;s work, &ldquo;<em><strong>Nat Cassidy has a smart, loud voice, pierced with black humor. Acutely aware, he can scare you to death, hurt your heart, but keep you laughing. A fresh new voice who has arrived right on time!</strong></em>&rdquo;</p> <p>Nat&rsquo;s full-length scripts include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>The Reckoning of Kit &amp; Little Boots</strong>, a "metaphysical buddy&nbsp;comedy" starring Christopher Marlowe and Caligula, which was awarded the 2009 New York&nbsp;Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script;</li> <li><strong>Any Day Now</strong>, a three-act kitchen&nbsp;sink family drama about the resurrection of the dead, which won the 2009 NYIT Award for&nbsp;Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role and was called "Genius ... Like Sam Shepard meets George&nbsp;Romero," by The Fab Marquee;</li> <li><strong>I Am Providence</strong>, a solo show about horror, theatre, and the&nbsp;works of writer H.P. Lovecraft, which won the 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Solo&nbsp;Performance and was called "the most delightful thing we've ever seen anyone pull off on a&nbsp;stage, anywhere, ever," by Tor.com;</li> <li><strong>The Eternal Husband</strong>, a noir re-imagining of Dostoevsky's&nbsp;novella, called "gripping, amazing, unforgettable" by Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio;&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Goldsboro</strong>, a pitch-black comedy, inspired by the works of William Inge, about the lives and&nbsp;loves of a family of nuclear cannibal mutants living in the desert;</li> <li><strong>Songs of Love: A Theatrical&nbsp;Mixtape</strong>, a series of short plays about bizarre relationships, interspersed with live, original music&nbsp;performed by a balladeer;</li> <li><strong>The Temple</strong>, a drama, loosely inspired by the H. P. Lovecraft story of&nbsp;the same name, about the hallucinogenic horrors experienced by a German U-Boat crew sunk at&nbsp;the bottom of the ocean as they run out of oxygen;</li> <li><strong>Old Familiar Faces</strong>, a drama about love,&nbsp;madness, and the works of William Shakespeare, based on the lives of Charles and Mary Lamb&nbsp;(the brother/sister team who wrote the beloved classic Tales from Shakespeare in 1807) and&nbsp;Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; and</li> <li><strong>Pierce</strong>, a ghost story set in the Executive Mansion in the&nbsp;1850s, during the administration of our tragic 14th President, about which Martin Denton&rsquo;s Indie&nbsp;Theater Blog wrote, &ldquo;Seeing this reminded me of something I already knew&ndash;that Nat is one of&nbsp;our most versatile young playwrights. (His prodigious output notwithstanding, he is in fact just&nbsp;30 years old.) &hellip; With Pierce and whatever comes after, count on Nat to continually surprise&nbsp;audiences and lead them on new and unexpected journeys.&rdquo;</li> </ul> <p>In 2011, Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE&rsquo;s<strong> People of the Year</strong> for his contributions to the Indie Theatre scene, calling him &ldquo;<em><strong>an actor, director, and playwright of surprising depth and range</strong></em>.&rdquo;</p> <p></p>

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