Nat Cassidy
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THE DEMON HUNTER

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A filial horror story in 1 act.

A troubled boy grows dangerously obsessed with creatures of darkness. A mysterious street magician perfects a devastating new trick. And a single mother near the breaking point meets with a new therapist in order to better understand the terrifying thoughts that have begun to possess her. 2M, 2W

AT THE BREAKAWAY

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A space station slacker comedy in 1 act.

What begins as a slacker comedy about a small group of drifting young adults working at a futuristic refueling station in space quickly turns dramatic when they are besieged by what appears to be a roving band of genocidal maniacs. 5M, 4W

GOLDSBORO

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An American myth in 2 acts.

An ambitious reporter and scientist are about to find out there are still places in this country that have yet to be put on any map. And there are still people perhaps best left in the dark ... An impossibly dark comedy, with a heartfelt wink at the works of William Inge, featuring the most warped family imaginable, Goldsboro is unlike anything you've ever seen, and yet frighteningly familiar. 5M, 3W (though there are several hermaphrodites)

UNPRODUCED FULL-LENGTH PLAYS

PIERCE

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A presidential ghost story in 4 acts.

1852. Political unknown Franklin Pierce is elected in a landslide victory to be our nation's 14th President. Three months later, on his journey to prepare for his inauguration, he is witness to an unspeakable tragedy that changes his life forever. Pierce tells the tragic and horrifying story of our most obscure leader, haunted beyond comprehension and driven desperately to distraction, as his country crawls its way towards civil war unnoticed. A ghost story unlike any other, set in that most haunted of houses: the White House. 11M, 1W


THE TEMPLE

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An hypoxial horror story in 2 acts.

Very loosely inspired by the story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft, The Temple puts the audience into the control room of a crushed and sunken U-Boat during the final days of the Germans' nautical conquests during WWII. Hallucinatory, claustrophobic, terrifying, and philosophically probing, The Temple is not for the faint of heart. 8M, 1W

NY Innovative Theatre Award Winner

OLD FAMILIAR FACES

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A love affair with blank verse in 2 acts. 
In 1786, author Mary Lamb commits a horrifying act of bloodshed and her brother Charles learns to forgive. In 2013, a talented man refuses to change and his brilliant lover learns to evolve.  A heartbreaking, time-jumping drama about four lives, bound by obsession, rocked by madness, and saved by blank verse. Based on true events. 2M, 2W


NY Innovative Theatre Award Nominee

SONGS OF LOVE: A THEATRICAL MIXTAPE

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An evening of twisted short plays and original music in 1 Act.

Genital warts. Mothmen. Decapitation. Pornography. Bagel fucking. And, of course ... love. A collection of terrifyingly twisted, outrageously heartfelt love stories and songs that is as unpredictable and familiar as those 90-minute cassettes you know you're still holding onto.  3M, 3W 

"This restored my faith in theatre," - Mariah MacCarthy, The Happiest Medium

I AM PROVIDENCE

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A solo show about theatre, horror, and the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

"Truly amazing ... An unexpectedly brilliant mediation on the use and function of horror, on H.P. Lovecraft himself, on the supernatural, on storytelling, on death, on hope. ... A play creepy and magical enough to do old H.P. proud. ... I'm still thinking about it, days later." -Tor.com

NY Innovative Theatre Award Winner


THE ETERNAL HUSBAND

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A private detective noir in 1 Act.

A stomach-tightening contemporary noir thriller, loosely based on the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, about a flailing private detective whose life is turned upside-down during a brutal summer heatwave by a visit from an erratic, unpredictable old man wearing a heavy black coat. 2M, 2W

"Nat Cassidy's starkly original adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Eternal Husband is, amazing, unforgettable. ... absolutely electrifying ... generates heat that is pure brilliance. This is 75 minutes you must not miss!"  - Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio

THE RECKONING OF KIT & LITTLE BOOTS

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A metaphysical buddy comedy in 2 Acts.

As he lies dying of a stab wound to the face, Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe’s life flashes before his eyes (er, eye). His host for this journey is his own personal Mephistopheles, the character about whom he never got to write: insane Roman emperor, Caligula. 5M, 2W


NY Innovative Theatre Award Winner

ANY DAY NOW

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An apocalyptic family drama in 3 Acts.

As the world wrestles with the sociological, biological, and theological meanings behind unexplained resurrections of the recently deceased, one Connecticut family learns that secrets cannot stay buried ... and that the ones you love may be the ones who eventually eat you alive. 3M, 4W

NY Innovative Theatre Award Winner | Tulsa Award for Theatrical Excellence Nominee

(c) Nat Cassidy