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. His work has been produced and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Primary Stages, ESPA, 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, First Floor Theatre (Chicago), American Theatre Company (Oklahoma), The Worlds Stage (Wisconsin), and others. His work has been published by 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's 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 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's plays 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)
- Pierce
- Goldsboro
- At the Breakaway
- The Temple
- The Demon Hunter
- 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 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.
