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BIOG/CV
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'Great
jokes, with an easy, confident manner. Cassidy seems to have a real
commitment to making intelligent comedy shows about fun ideas'
Fringe Guru Aug 2012
As
well as being an award-nominated stand-up in the UK (Malcolm
Hardee Award 2012), Nathan is an
award-winning playwright, having won the Sir
Michael Caine Award for new writing for his play ‘The
Cure for the Common Cold’.
Nathan's debut Edinburgh
Fringe show in 2010 was at Just the Tonic at the Caves, after sell-out shows at the Leicester Comedy
Festival, and on the Brighton and London Fringe in 2010.
His follow up show 'Fantastica' returned to Just the Tonic
in 2011. His 2012 shows 'Free Pound' and feature
documentary film 'I am Orig'
were nominated for a Malcolm Hardee Award. His 2013
show 'Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner' hits all the major
festivals this year and he is resident host of The Rat Pack
stand-up comedy show in London and Edinburgh (www.theratpack.co.uk).
Nathan has previous experience
on the Fringe dating back 14 years – in 1996 he was a
baby-faced winner of Mervin Stutter’s Spirit of the
Fringe Award for the play ‘Lady Bracknell was a
Lesbian’. He was also in The Donkey Show, which was
the big hit of the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe.
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CV |
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Writing for theatre
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THE CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD
(play)
Various 2007-8 including Sevenoaks Playhouse and Leatherhead Theatre (Dir. Emma
Margrett)
(Winner of the Sir Michael Caine Award for new writing)
F***LIST CELEBRITY
(play)
Finborough
Theatre, London, Jun 2003 (Dir. David Erdos)
"More good lines than a celebrity's mirror"
(Phil Williams,
BBC Radio 5
Live)
"Cracking
one liners...side-splitting"
(Rachel
Foster, Camden New Journal)
Full play
available at British Library
DIY,
THE MUSICAL
Venue 45,
Edinburgh Festival 1997
(Writer/Director)
"Vibrant,
colourful, wonderfully entertaining" (BBC Radio 5
Live)
DOUBLE MURDER (play)
Connaught Theatre,
Worthing 1996 (Dir.
Mike Padley)
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Writing for Film and TV |
I AM ORIG
(feature documentary)
(Director)
MY LONDON PARTY
(feature documentary)
(Director)
http://www.theratpack.co.uk/mylondonparty
DOUBLE TROUBLE
(6-part sitcom)
Pilot
episode, 2005 (Writer/Director)
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Writing for Stand-up Comedy
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NATHAN CASSIDY
(Leicester Comedy Festival 2010/11,
Brighton Fringe 2010/11/12/13, Edinburgh Fringe 2010/11/12/13
@ Just the Tonic and Hen & Chickens Theatre, London 2010/11)
Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee 2012
Gigs around the
country include...
THE COMEDY STORE
(London and Manchester)
KOMEDIA
(Brighton)
JUST THE TONIC
(Nottingham),
FUNHOUSE
(Various,
Midlands),
CRACK COMEDY (London), MIRTH
(various)
'Great
jokes, with an easy, confident manner. Cassidy seems to have a real
commitment to making intelligent comedy shows about fun ideas'
Fringe Guru Aug 2012 |
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Novels:
THE CURE
FOR THE COMMON COLD, BELIEVING IN GOD
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Writing
in development
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RADIO SITCOM
(developed with Hat Trick)
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Other
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Training:
BBC Writer workshop
/ Bristol
University (BA Hons Psychology) |
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Sitcom competitions:
BBC 'Laughing Stock' long-listed
2011
'The
Last Laugh' long-listed
2005 |
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Acting:
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"SERIAL KILLERS"
Stephen Skinner - Discovery Channel (2009)
Channel 5 (2013) |
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"SPACED" Series 2, Channel 4 (2001) |
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"COLD CUTS"
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival 2002
“THE DONKEY SHOW”
The Hanover Grand,
London 2001 |
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"LADY BRACKNELL
WAS A LESBIAN"
Edinburgh Festival 1996
(Spirit of the Fringe Award Winner) |
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