Born in North Carolina (which subsequently 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-five years. Since moving to NYC in 2004, he has been in over 50 productions, and has been seen onstage at venues such as Lincoln Center, The Cherry Lane, The Public, SoHo Playhouse, The Players Theatre, 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.
Nat is also one of New York City's most exciting new playwrights, with numerous productions and awards, critical acclaim, and a reputation for producing intelligent, bold, darkly comic plays with one foot in horror and the other in literary allusion. Nat's works have been seen at venues such as LaMaMa ETC, Theatre Row, The Players Club, The Players Theatre, The WorkShop Theatre, The Gallery Players, and Manhattan Theatre Source, as well as across the country, from Los Angeles to Tulsa. In 2012, he was commissioned by The Kennedy Center/Washington National Opera, as part of the first-ever American Opera Initiative, to write the libretto for a new short opera with composer Scott Perkins (you can read some of the project's stellar press here).
Nat's full-length plays include:
As frontman to Nat Cassidy & the Nines, he has also 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, Googie's Lounge, Cafe Vivaldi, and others.
Wanna befriend his electronic presence? Head over to the "Contact" page and you can find him on all the social media you can handle - including, if you've just come out of a six year coma, Friendster.
Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE.COM's People of the Year in 2011.
Nat is also one of New York City's most exciting new playwrights, with numerous productions and awards, critical acclaim, and a reputation for producing intelligent, bold, darkly comic plays with one foot in horror and the other in literary allusion. Nat's works have been seen at venues such as LaMaMa ETC, Theatre Row, The Players Club, The Players Theatre, The WorkShop Theatre, The Gallery Players, and Manhattan Theatre Source, as well as across the country, from Los Angeles to Tulsa. In 2012, he was commissioned by The Kennedy Center/Washington National Opera, as part of the first-ever American Opera Initiative, to write the libretto for a new short opera with composer Scott Perkins (you can read some of the project's stellar press here).
Nat's full-length plays include:
- Any Day Now (NYIT Award Winner; called "Genius ... like Sam Shepard meets George Romero," by The Fab Marquee)
- The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots (NYIT Award Winner; called "Incredibly fun ... a very inventive and funny play that gives [Christopher] Marlowe the Charlie Kaufman treatment," by Jamespeak)
- Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape ("This restored my faith in theatre," The Happiest Medium)
- The Eternal Husband ("gripping, amazing, unforgettable," Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio),
- I Am Providence (NYIT Award Winner; "the most delightful thing we've ever seen anyone pull off on a stage, anywhere, ever," Tor.com)
- Old Familiar Faces ("As heartbreaking as anything in the theatrical canon," Fanchild)
- Pierce
- Goldsboro
- At the Breakaway
- The Temple
- The Collector
and others, as well as a bunch of - Short works.
As frontman to Nat Cassidy & the Nines, he has also 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, Googie's Lounge, Cafe Vivaldi, and others.
Wanna befriend his electronic presence? Head over to the "Contact" page and you can find him on all the social media you can handle - including, if you've just come out of a six year coma, Friendster.
Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE.COM's People of the Year in 2011.
