Nat Cassidy

Nat Cassidy is an award-winning actor, playwright, and director, and a sandwich-winning musician. He lives in New York City and rejects anything even closely resembling job security.

Born in North Carolina (which then added his initials to the state flag in commemoration), raised in Arizona, and now residing in Brooklyn, Nat has been performing as an actor for over twenty years. Since moving to NYC in 2004, he has been in over 30 productions, and has been seen onstage at venues such as 59E59, Lincoln Center, The Cherry Lane, MTC's Dodger Studios, The Public, SoHo Playhouse, Theatre Row, P.S. 122, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, 45th Street Theatre, and many others.

As a playwright, Nat's works have received productions, readings, and workshops throughout New York City, including venues such as Theatre Row, The Gallery Players, and Manhattan Theatre Source. His plays include Any Day Now (a 3-act kitchen-sink family drama set during the first few months of the zombie apocalypse), The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots (a metaphysical buddy-comedy about the lives of Christopher Marlowe and Caligula), The Eternal Husband (a noir-styled adaptation of Dostoevsky's novella), The Collector (a new stage adaptation of John Fowles' seminal suspense novel), and others. 

In 2009, his plays were up for a combined total of FIVE New York Innovative Theatre Awards: Outstanding Production (Kit & Little Boots, The Gallery Players and Engine37), Outstanding Full-Length Script (Kit & Little Boots), Outstanding Director (Nat Cassidy, Any Day Now), Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role (Elyse Mirto, Any Day Now), and Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role (David Ian Lee, Kit & Little Boots). By the end of the awards ceremony, Nat's script for The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots and his lead actress in Any Day Now, Elyse Mirto, both took home awards for respective oustandingness. Both plays are now published and available for purchase. Check the "Current" page on this site for direct links.

As frontman to Nat Cassidy & the Nines, he has written and recorded two albums (Pet Symmetry and Everybody Here Says Hi! both available for purchase and download from GFS Productions) and is currently at work on the band's third, a double-album entitled Words of Whiskey. He has performed with and without the Nines at venues such as the Knitting Factory, Pete's Candy Store, Arlene's Grocery, Mo Pitkin's, Galapagos, and others.

Wanna read his blog? Here it is. Be warned, it hasn't been updated in years and naughty things are mentioned there. Usually gratuitously.

Wanna befriend his electronic presence? You can find him on

• MySpace
• Linkedin
• Facebook

even

• Friendster (for those over 35)
  

What's New?

2010 has been a busy one, it has. So far:

• Nat is thrilled to be playing the title role in William Shakespeare's HENRY VI, PART III, at the beautiful East 13th Street Theatre this July. Check this page for the details! 

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• Nat's play Any Day Now was just published in the New York Theatre Experience's anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2010. It's now available throughout NYC bookstores, as well as amazon.com.

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• Filming recently wrapped on  Pandora Machine's upcoming Sci-Fi/Horror film DAY 2, in which Nat was one of the principals. The trailer can be seen here.

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• Nat had a phenomenal time playing Jaques in Wingspan Arts' production of As You Like It in the Off-Broadway Theatre at the Roy Arias Studios! A great show with a fantastic group.

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• Nat recently finished the first drafts of his newest scripts: Pierce, a four-act ghost story set in the White House in the 1850s; I Am Providence, a one-man show about H.P. Lovecraft; and Goldsboro, a play, for lack of a less insane slugline, about a family of nuclear mutants living in the desert.

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• Recording of the newest Nat Cassidy & the Nines album, Words of Whiskey, is going swimmingly.
  
  
  Who wouldn't wanna hire this guy?

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