Born in North Carolina, raised in Arizona, and now residing in New York, Nat Cassidy in an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and musician. Nat has appeared in television shows like "Blue Bloods" (CBS), "Bull" (CBS), "The Following" (Fox), "The Good Fight" (CBS), "Quantico" (ABC), "The Affair" (Showtime), "Red Oaks" (Amazon) "The Last O.G." (TBS), "High Maintenance" (original web series), as well as on stage at venues such as Lincoln Center, Cherry Lane, The Public, SoHo Playhouse, Classic Stage Company’s East 13th Street Theatre, The Arclight, 59E59, Theatre Row, P.S. 122, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, 45th Street Theatre, The Players Theatre, The Players Club, and many others.
Nat is "one of New York City's rising 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" (Usher Nonsense). His work has been produced and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Primary Stages, The Flea, One Minute Play Festival (The New Ohio), The Players Club, The Players Theatre, LaMaMa ETC, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Nosedive Productions, Piper McKenzie, Adaptive Arts, CAPS LOCK Theatre, Retro Productions, Blood Brothers Present, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, The Brick, The Den Theatre (Chicago), American Theatre Company (Oklahoma), World's Stage (Wisconsin), and others. His work has been published by Sam French, Broadway Play Publishing, New York Theatre Experience, Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Indie Theatre Now. Nat is an alumnus of Primary Stages' ESPADrills and was commissioned by The Kennedy Center as part of the inaugural American Opera Initiative to write a libretto with composer Scott Perkins, which the Washington Times called "brilliant" and "remarkable" (you can read more of the project's stellar press here).
Nat is also an acclaimed novelist. In 2017, he wrote the novelization for the hit podcast Steal the Stars (written by Mac Rogers and produced by Gideon Media/Tor Labs). His book was included on Best Of lists that year by NPR and the Chicago Review of Books, as well as named a notable new release by The Verge and Kirkus Reviews. (Nat also plays beloved character Lloyd on the Steal the Stars podcast.) In 2019, he signed a two-book contract with Tor's new all-horror imprint, Nightfire, the first book under which was the acclaimed serial killer/reincarnation thriller titled Mary. His second novel, Nestlings, has already been named one of the most anticipated horror novels of 2023 by Paste Magazine, and is due out on October 31st.
Nat's plays have been nominated for a combined total of 17 New York Innovative Theatre Awards and 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 recording the band's third, fourth, and fifth (he's been busy, okay?). He has performed with and without the Nines at historic New York City 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 fifteen year coma, Friendster.
Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE.COM's People of the Year in 2011 and is an inductee in the Indie Theater Hall of Fame. Nat was also included among Esquire's "Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age."
Nat is "one of New York City's rising 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" (Usher Nonsense). His work has been produced and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Primary Stages, The Flea, One Minute Play Festival (The New Ohio), The Players Club, The Players Theatre, LaMaMa ETC, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Nosedive Productions, Piper McKenzie, Adaptive Arts, CAPS LOCK Theatre, Retro Productions, Blood Brothers Present, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, The Brick, The Den Theatre (Chicago), American Theatre Company (Oklahoma), World's Stage (Wisconsin), and others. His work has been published by Sam French, Broadway Play Publishing, New York Theatre Experience, Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Indie Theatre Now. Nat is an alumnus of Primary Stages' ESPADrills and was commissioned by The Kennedy Center as part of the inaugural American Opera Initiative to write a libretto with composer Scott Perkins, which the Washington Times called "brilliant" and "remarkable" (you can read more of the project's stellar press here).
Nat is also an acclaimed novelist. In 2017, he wrote the novelization for the hit podcast Steal the Stars (written by Mac Rogers and produced by Gideon Media/Tor Labs). His book was included on Best Of lists that year by NPR and the Chicago Review of Books, as well as named a notable new release by The Verge and Kirkus Reviews. (Nat also plays beloved character Lloyd on the Steal the Stars podcast.) In 2019, he signed a two-book contract with Tor's new all-horror imprint, Nightfire, the first book under which was the acclaimed serial killer/reincarnation thriller titled Mary. His second novel, Nestlings, has already been named one of the most anticipated horror novels of 2023 by Paste Magazine, and is due out on October 31st.
Nat's plays have been nominated for a combined total of 17 New York Innovative Theatre Awards and include:
- Any Day Now (NYIT Award Winner; ESPADrills 2014; 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 (NYIT Award Nominee; "As heartbreaking as anything in the theatrical canon," Fanchild)
- The Temple, or Lebensraum,(NYIT Award Winner; "A genuinely magnificent piece of theater," Surreal Time Press)
- Pierce
- Goldsboro
- At the Breakaway
- The Demon Hunter
- Tenants, or, When the Hornet Arrives
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 recording the band's third, fourth, and fifth (he's been busy, okay?). He has performed with and without the Nines at historic New York City 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 fifteen year coma, Friendster.
Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE.COM's People of the Year in 2011 and is an inductee in the Indie Theater Hall of Fame. Nat was also included among Esquire's "Writers Shaping Horror's Next Golden Age."