Nat Cassidy
PLAYS
Any Day Now
by
Nat Cassidy
Human 2.0 Part 2
by
Flux Theatre Ensemble
The Eternal Husband
by
Nat Cassidy
The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots
by
Nat Cassidy
Goldsboro
by
Nat Cassidy
Pierce
by
Nat Cassidy
Nat Cassidy is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director, and a sandwich-winning musician. Raised in Arizona, he received his BFA in Acting/Directing from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2004 and moved to New York City a few months thereafter. His scripts include:
- The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots - a "metaphysical buddy comedy" starring Christopher Marlowe and Caligula. Winner of the 2009 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script; nominated for Outstanding Production (Gallery Players/Engine37) and Outstanding Actor in a Lead Role (David Ian Lee, whose Sleeper, which Nat directed, can be found on this very site); soon-to-be published by United Stages;
- Any Day Now - a three-act kitchen sink family drama about the resurrection of the dead. Winner of the 2009 NYIT Award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role (Elyse Mirto); nominated for Outstanding Director (Nat Cassidy); published in the 2010 edition of Plays & Playwrights; called "Genius ... Like Sam Shepard meets George Romero," by The Fab Marquee;
- I Am Providence - a solo show about horror, theatre, and the works of writer H.P. Lovecraft, called "the most delightful thing we've ever seen anyone pull off on a stage, anywhere, ever," by Tor.com. Winner of the 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Solo Performance;
- The Eternal Husband - a noir re-imagining of Dostoevsky's novella, called "gripping, amazing, unforgettable" by Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio;
- Pierce - a ghost story set in the Executive Mansion in the 1850s, during the administration of our tragic 14th President;
- Goldsboro - a dark, dark comedy, inspired by the works of William Inge, about the lives and loves of a family of nuclear cannibal mutants living in the desert;
- Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape - a series of short plays--some comedic, some dramatic, all of them twisted--centered around a unifying theme, interspersed with live, original music performed by a singer-songwriter;
- The Temple - a drama about the hallucinogenic horrors experienced by a German U-Boat crew at the bottom of the ocean as they run out of oxygen, loosely inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name;
- Old Familiar Faces - a drama about love, madness, and the works of William Shakespeare, based on the lives of Charles and Mary Lamb (the brother/sister team who wrote the beloved classic Tales from Shakespeare in 1807) and Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh;
- The Romantics Comedy - another "metaphysical buddy comedy" about the after-life exploits of the Romantic Poets;
- and many other scripts that you can usually find him working on in tattered notebooks throughout the city.
Website: www.natcassidy.com
Contact Info: Rochelle at rd@indietheaternow.com
Playwright Links
Nat Cassidy on the Indie Theater Blog
Nat Cassidy on Acting, Writing, and Their Intersection
(May 16, 2012)
Nat Cassidy has three full-length plays on Indie Theater Now, and has two more coming online soon. But Nat is also a fine actor, and in fact I first met him in that capacity, when he was appearing in a FringeNYC production of a play by Sara Farrington, The Rise and Fall of Miles and [...]
First Look at Nat Cassidy’s Pierce
(November 30, 2011)
Last night, I was at the first-ever public reading of Pierce, a new play by Nat Cassidy. The reading was held at The Players Club, which is always an elegant and inspiring locale for a theater-releated event. This new play, which we hope will see a full production sometime in 2012, is about the life [...]
