Nat Cassidy

Nat Cassidy
Nat Cassidy
Born Nathaniel Cassidy
(1981-09-25) September 25, 1981
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Occupation Actor, writer, director, musician
Awards New York Innovative Theatre Awards (Outstanding Full Length Script, 2009; Outstanding Solo Performance, 2011), Route 66 International Film Festival (Best Lead Actor, 2013)
Website http://www.natcassidy.com

Nat Cassidy (born September 25, 1981) is an American actor, writer, and musician based out of New York City, New York, United States. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and attended Horizon High School, after which he received his BFA at the University of Arizona.

Career

Cassidy has appeared as an actor in numerous Off- and Off-Off-Broadway productions.[1] He has also appeared in film and web projects, including the acclaimed webseries High Maintenance.[2] In 2013, Cassidy starred in the independent horror-comedy film They Will Outlive Us All, which won numerous awards throughout the festival circuit,[3] including winning Cassidy Best Actor in Chicago's Route 66 International Film Festival.[4] Ain't It Cool News said of Cassidy's performance that he is "talented enough to carry this entire film."[5] Also in 2013, he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, for the one-man play Generic Magic Realism, by Edmond Malin.[6] Cassidy was inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame for his contributions to the NY independent theatre scene, and was described as "an actor, director, and playwright of surprising range and depth."[7]

Writer

Cassidy has a reputation for writing "darkly comic plays with one foot in horror and the other in literary allusion," and often feature historical characters.[8] NYTheatre.com called him "a seismic talent."[9] His playscripts have been about, among other things, Shakespeare, Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb, H.P. Lovecraft, nuclear mutation, President Franklin Pierce, zombies, Dostoevsky, Nazi Germany, and genital warts.[10]

In 2009, Cassidy's "metaphysical buddy comedy" about an imagined relationship between Christopher Marlowe and Caligula, The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots, was nominated for three New York Innovative Theatre Awards and took home the award for Outstanding Full-Length Script.[11] His play Any Day Now was also nominated for two NY IT Awards that same year, and took home Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role (Elyse Mirto). In 2011, his Lovecraft-inspired one-man show, 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 of Eternity, I Learned from Howard Phillips Lovecraft, won the NY IT Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[12] In 2014, his play Old Familiar Faces was nominated for four NYIT Awards, including Outstanding Full-Length Script, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Lead Actor, and Outstanding Lead Actress.[13]

In 2012, Cassidy was one of four librettists commissioned by The Kennedy Center/Washington National Opera in the first-ever American Opera Initiative.[14] With composer Scott Perkins, he wrote the short opera "Charon," a loose adaptation of a story fragment by Lord Dunsany, which the Washington Times called "remarkable," "brilliant," and that "Mr. Cassidy’s libretto is what any composer could want."[15] His work has been produced mainly in New York City, but has also seen productions across the country, including Oklahoma,[16] Wisconsin,[17] and Chicago[18] His plays have been published by New York Theater Experience, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, and Indie Theater Now.

Appearances

Selected TV and films

Off-Broadway and independent theatre

Scripts

Full-length

Short plays

References

  1. ↑ "Nat Cassidy News". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "High Maintenance". Helpingyoumaintain.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "THEY WILL OUTLIVE US ALL". THEY WILL OUTLIVE US ALL. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Route 66 Film Festival". Route66filmfestival.net. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Bugs, mold, zombies, ghosts, & dinosaurs! AICN HORROR says Everybody Dies Film Festival!". Aint It Cool News. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Innovative Theatre Awards Held Sept. 30; Bedbugs!!!, Astoria's Blood Brothers, LaMaMa Among 2013 Nominees". Playbill. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Nat Cassidy - Indie Theater Hall of Fame". indietheaterhalloffame.com.
  8. ↑ "2013 New York International Fringe Festival Press Conference Part 3". Ushernonsense.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Old Familiar Faces". Nytheatre.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Nat Cassidy". Indiatheaternow.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  11. ↑ BWW News Desk. "2009 Innovative Theatre Awards Announced!". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  12. ↑ "IT Award Winners Announced; Gallery Players' Drowsy Chaperone Takes Four Honors". Playbill. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  13. 1 2 "NYIT Awards, Celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, Are Presented Today". playbill.com.
  14. ↑ "Washington National Opera Blog". Blogs.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  15. ↑ "Communities". Communities.washingtontimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ "Summer 2014 Season Auditions!". the world's stage. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "Sights + Sounds: The Reckoning of Kit & Little Boots « Sheridan Road Magazine". Sheridanroadmagazine.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  19. ↑ "Nat Cassidy". IMDb.
  20. ↑ "Shakespeare in the Round-and-Round". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  21. ↑ ANDY WEBSTER. "The Amazing Adventures of Pencil Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20150207040618/http://www.nytimes.com/theater/show/46648/The-Runner-Stumbles/overview. Archived from the original on February 7, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ↑ "Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  24. ↑ "Honey Fist". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  25. ↑ "Lunacy and Chaos". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  26. ↑ "Theater". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  27. ↑ "Spare Times for March 18-24". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  28. ↑ "FringeNYC: Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  29. ↑ "The Blood Brothers present Bedlam Nightmares: Execution Day". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  30. ↑ Adam McGovern. "An iPhone Gives You More Time for Depravity in New Play Series Raw Feed". Tor.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  31. ↑ "electric sleep - Fanchild". Mcgovernix.wordpress.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  32. ↑ "The Blood Brothers Present . . . Bedlam Nightmares: Shock Treatments". Nytheaternow.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  33. ↑ Byrne Harrison. "StageBuzz.com". Stagebuzz.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.

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