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Nat Cassidy

NAT CASSIDY

  (1981 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Nat Cassidy is is an award-winning playwright and actor and a sandwich-winning musician. Raised in Arizona, he currently resides in Brooklyn. His plays include The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots (NY Innovative Theatre Award winner for Outstanding Full-Length Script); Any Day Now (NY Innovative Theatre Award winner); I Am Providence (NY Innovative Theatre Award winner); The Eternal Husband; Old Familiar Faces; Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape; Pierce; Goldsboro; The Temple; At the Breakaway; Foundations; Loss; The Demon Hunter; The Assassinations of Jomo Bekele; One Last Dinner with the Stalins after the World Has Ended; and various others you might see him working on in tattered notebooks throughout the city. His work has been produced and/or developed at The Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Primary Stages, 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 World's Stage Theatre Company (Wisconsin); Finborough Theatre (UK), and others. His plays have been published by New York Theater Experience, Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Indie Theater Now. He was one of three librettists chosen for the inaugural American Opera Initiative at The Kennedy Center, and was commissioned to write a libretto (alongside composer Scott Perkins) which the Washington Times called "brilliant" and "remarkable." Nat also writes for film and television with MozzleStead Productions and is an accomplished singer-songwriter, with three albums of original material and a fourth on the way.

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         All In Good Fun (Part II)         Any Day Now         Blood Brothers present. . . RAW FeeD, The         Eternal Husband, The         Generation         Goldsboro, Or, An American Myth In Two Acts         I Am Providence, Or, All I Really Needed To Know About the Stygian Nightmare Into Which Mankind Will Inevitably Be Devoured, Its Fruitless Screams Of Agony Resounding In the Unending Chasm Of Indifferent Space, As It Is Digested By Squamous And Eldritch Horrors Beyond Comprehension For All Eternity, I Learned From Howard Phillips Lovecraft         Leslie and Sonia Forever         Leslie Gets a Puppy         Old Familiar Faces         Pierce, Or, A Ghost Of the Union         Reckoning Of Kit & Little Boots, The         Songs Of Love: A theatrical Mixtape         Temple, The, or, Lebensraum         Who's There

All In Good Fun (Part II)

Synopsis:
The execution of the Blood Brothers races closer and their captor, Doctor Queen, has vowed that she will break their minds before she destroys their bodies. So while she's away, that means exposing the boys to some of the ugliest, most rancid stories the hospital has to offer.

Notes:
part of Bedlam Nightmares: Shock Treatments

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Blood Brothers Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/bedlam-nightmares-shock-treatments   -

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Any Day Now

Synopsis:
a three-act kitchen-sink Drama about the Colbys, a typically dysfunctional American family dealing with a rather atypical problem: the dead are coming back to life. However, instead of the flesh-hungry monsters we've always feared, it appears as though these reanimated bodies are part of a seemingly benign (albeit perplexing and inconvenient, to say the least) phenomenon happening around the world . . . until political ambitions and hidden resentments threaten to change everything . . . aNY DaY NOW is a portrait of a country distracted by an hystErical media, a world confronted with unanswerable questions, and a family with buried secrets that have the potential to devour them all.

Notes:
Winner of the 2009 New York Innovative theatre Award for Outstanding Actress in A Lead Role. Nominated for Outstanding Director.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
InGenius Festival

1st Published:
New York Theatre Experience 2010, http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   979-485231

Music:
-

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Genre:
Dark Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Blood Brothers present. . . RAW FeeD, The

Synopsis:
A gay porn star's insatiable hunger for fame leads to unspeakable acts of violence. A pretty, young contestant will make the mistake of her life if she chooses Bachelor #1. A ventriloquist on Christian television takes communion to a whole new level. When you're always connected, there's nowhere to hide. . . these tales and others will make up this year's the BLOOD BROtheRS PReSeNT. . . horror anthology series.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Brick theatre
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211    04 Oct 2012

Organisations:
Nosedive Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Eternal Husband, The

Synopsis:
a private detective noir Drama inspired by the Dostoevsky novElla of the same name, the eternal Husband concerns a P.I., suffering through a summer heat wave and going through a little bit of an existential crisis, who is visited by the husband of a woman with whom he once carried out a long, passionate affair. the woman, it seems, has just died. the husband seems ignorant of the past relationship. as the detective tries to unravel whether or not the husband knew of his wife's infidelity, another complication arises: a daughter of questionable paternity.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
FaR Space    2006

Organisations:
Fine Feathered Friends

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 70 min One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Generation

Synopsis:
ForePlay is Flux Theatre Ensemble's annual exploratory staged reading series where playwrights riff on the themes of Flux's main production. Human 2.0 riffed on August Schulenburg's play about the next step in human evolution, DEINDE. Over three nights, Flux presented short plays by 14 playwrights imagining what various human senses will look like in the future. What if we had the capacity to smell like a dog? Use radar like a bat? See all the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum? How will we upgrade our sense of beauty and justice? What will happen when we truly have unlimited memory? All of these short plays explore what it means to be human in an era of rapid technological change.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble, The Lounge in Dixon Place in New York City    02 Apr 2012

Organisations:
a ForePlay staged reading series by Flux Theatre Ensemble

1st Published:
in "Human 2.0 Part 2", http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
ten min play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Goldsboro, Or, An American Myth In Two Acts

Synopsis:
In this world of satellite maps and global positioning, sometimes the country can feel so small, so thoroughly defined and categorized. the age of Manifest Destiny and exploration, it seems, is over . . . However, as an ambitious reporter and scientist are about to find out, there are still places in this land that have yet to be put on any map. there are still areas yet to be discovered. and there are still people perhaps best left in the dark . . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
Dark Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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I Am Providence, Or, All I Really Needed To Know About the Stygian Nightmare Into Which Mankind Will Inevitably Be Devoured, Its Fruitless Screams Of Agony Resounding In the Unending Chasm Of Indifferent Space, As It Is Digested By Squamous And Eldritch Horrors Beyond Comprehension For All Eternity, I Learned From Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Synopsis:
after having tackled zombies, ghosts, serial killers, depraved Roman emperors, cannibal mutants, and antebellum politics, Nat Cassidy takes us on his most terrifying journey yet: the life of an actor. Part immersive analysis of the works of revered early 20th Century horror icon H.P. Lovecraft, part (lightly fictionalized) autobiography of the actor/playwright, I aM PROVIDeNCe is a one-man show that examines the extradimensional horrors that await us all, and the existential dread unique to a life in the Arts.

Notes:
part of Things At the Doorstep. This is A disturbing double-bill of solo performances Adapted from And inspired by the man whom Stephen King describes As "the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale," Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)

1st Produced:
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street, New York, NY 10011    14 Mar 2011

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Horror/One Man Show

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Leslie and Sonia Forever

Synopsis:
In the custody of a physician as sinister as they are, the Blood Brothers fill their last days feeding on the surreal stories of their fellow inmates. A wedge driven between them by the cunning Doctor Queen, the Brothers wrestle with life in Hospital One.

Notes:
part of Bedlam Nightmares: Losing Patients

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Blood Brothers Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/bedlam-nightmares-losing-patients   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Leslie Gets a Puppy

Synopsis:
The execution of the Blood Brothers races closer and their captor, Doctor Queen, has vowed that she will break their minds before she destroys their bodies. So while she's away, that means exposing the boys to some of the ugliest, most rancid stories the hospital has to offer.

Notes:
part of Bedlam Nightmares: Shock Treatments

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Blood Brothers Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/bedlam-nightmares-shock-treatments   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Old Familiar Faces

Synopsis:
A heartbreaking drama about murder, obsession, love, and the astounding true story of two lives saved by the works of William Shakespeare. From two-time NY Innovative theatre Award-winner Nat Cassidy. "I cannot wait for Cassidys next creation!"  NYtheATRE

Notes:
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1st Produced:
the Players Theatre, New York Festival Fringe    Aug 2013

Organisations:
Tin Drum Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Drama 145 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Pierce, Or, A Ghost Of the Union

Synopsis:
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, his train derails and his only living son is killed before his eyes. PIeRCe tells the tragic and horrifying story of our most obscure leader, haunted beyond comprehension and driven desperately to distraction, as his country inches its way towards civil war unnoticed. a ghost story unlike any other, set in that most haunted of houses: the White House.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    -

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Horror/Historical Drama

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Reckoning Of Kit & Little Boots, The

Synopsis:
as Christopher Marlowe lies bleeding to death from a fatal knife-wound to the face, his life flashes before his eyes (or, rather, eye). His host for this journey is his own personal Mephistopheles, a character about whom he never got the chance to write: the infamous Roman emperor, Caligula. the Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots is a fiery, impassioned, hallucinatory, comedic, and ultimately poignant exploration of the art of writing, of what it is that calls an author to a particular subject, and of the dangers that lie in the obsessions of a creative mind.

Notes:
Winner of the 2009 New York Innovative theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script. Nominated for Outstanding Actor in A Lead Role And Outstanding Production.

1st Produced:
the Gallery Players    2008

Organisations:
Gallery Players engine37

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
2 acts 120 min comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Songs Of Love: A theatrical Mixtape

Synopsis:
Genital warts. Mothmen. Decapitation. Pornography. Bagel fucking. and, of course . . . love. Join multi-award-winning author Nat Cassidy through terrifyingly twisted, outrageously heartfelt stories of love--each complemented by an original song performed onstage by a live (not dead) musician.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Venue #10: the Players Theatre, Fringe NYC, NY    11 Aug 2012

Organisations:
Tin Drum Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
1h 45m Comedy Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Temple, The, or, Lebensraum

Synopsis:
THE MISSION: You're inside the sunken, pulverized body of the German-commissioned submarine, U-401, after fighting like hell for a country you're not sure you believe in anymore. It's the Spring of 1943. The world is at war above your head, but you're 200 meters below the surface of the ocean. 2 million pascals of force squeeze the vessel around you, conspiring to crush you beyond all recognition. You're surrounded by your dead fellow crewmen. The battery is dying. The oxygen is running out. And there's a monster on board with you. The Temple, or, Lebensraum updates Lovecraft's original story (which details the increasingly supernatural horrors experienced aboard a sunken submarine) to the middle of WWII, specifically the Black Spring a period describing the seemingly sudden reversal of fortune for Germany's once unstoppable U-boat force. he Temple, or, Lebensraum is also based on the logs and memoirs of the few U-boat captains and crewman that survived a war with an almost 80% casualty rate for German sub-mariners. The play examines the severe tensions between the Nazi Party and the Kriegsmarine (The German Navy), the insanity of WWII and Nazism, and the engulfing madness one man experiences when put in a position of absolute power.

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Who's There

Synopsis:
In the custody of a physician as sinister as they are, the Blood Brothers fill their last days feeding on the surreal stories of their fellow inmates. A wedge driven between them by the cunning Doctor Queen, the Brothers wrestle with life in Hospital One.

Notes:
part of Bedlam Nightmares: Losing Patients

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Blood Brothers Productions

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/bedlam-nightmares-losing-patients   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  plays 2 characters

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