PLAYS

Any Day Now
by Nat Cassidy

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.

Academy Award-nominated writer Joan Tewkesbury (Robert Altman's Nashville) said of Nat's works: "Nat Cassidy has a smart, loud voice, pierced with black humor. Acutely aware, he can scare you to death, hurt your heart, but keep you laughing. A fresh new voice who has arrived right on time." Named an nytheatre.com Person of the Year in 2011.

Website: www.natcassidy.com

Contact Info: Rochelle at rd@indietheaternow.com