Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

Writing

Nathaniel is an award-winning stage performer, director, screen actor, and published playwright.

His writing has been listed among the Best Theatre of the Year by The British Blacklist (In Everglade Studio), selected for the Criterion Theatre's New Writing Showcase on the West End (Pretty Rough Terrain), nominated for the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (Blood Red Apples & Deep Gold Honey), the BBC Writersroom Popcorn Award for Best New Writing (In Everglade Studio), and an Offie (Port City Signature). Nathaniel was named a Bursary Prize winner for his writing and performance at Screenshot, hosted by the Royal Court (for The Nomineers, a monologue adaptation of his play Press).

His first published play, In Everglade Studio, listed by The British Blacklist among the Best Theatre of 2024, featured seven original songs with lyrics written by Brimmer-Beller, and transferred to London from an acclaimed Edinburgh run. Performance credits include Albert Taft in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps and David Fring in Press. His plays In Everglade Studio, Port City Signature, and Press are published by Bloomsbury Publishing / Methuen Drama. Read more at brimmerbeller.com.

Brimmer-Beller has directed multiple short films, including Evening Plans (nominated at the Edinburgh International Film Festival), The Arbitrator, and B-Roll, which premiered in London at Side/Step Festival.

He has directed more than 30 theatrical productions - including the UK premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames' White - and written more than twenty plays, including seven acclaimed premieres at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ("Genius" - Broadway Baby; "Fringe theatre does not get much better than this" - The Violet Curtain; "The most intelligent piece of theatre I have seen at the Fringe" - EdFringe Review; "Taut and snappy dialogue, a clever script with well engineered twists, an almost miraculous cool" - AllEdinburgh Theatre; "An intelligently constructed masterpiece" - The Student; "Hilarious... some of the loudest laughs of this year’s Fringe" - Theatre Scotland).

Brimmer-Beller has collaborated with the Criterion Theatre, Almeida Theatre, The Hope Theatre, VAULT Festival, Pleasance, Assembly, The Old Red Lion, The Jack Studio Theatre, South of the River Pictures, SISTER Global, Criterion Theatre, and more.

Notable works include acclaimed two-hander The Time Has Passed, acclaimed drama Rock Around The Clock, theatre-industry satire The Kindness of Strangers, darkly comedic story of Black and Jewish life Blood Red Apples & Deep Gold Honey (developed with the Almeida Theatre and nominated for the George Devine Award in 2022), 1960s-set fashion industry mystery Nines, three-hander heist thriller Fear of Roses, acclaimed ensemble piece Technicolor, live show The 80 Percent Plan, radio play Turner & Turner, and the short plays And I Mean That Sincerely and The War For Canada.

Brimmer-Beller continues to write and perform for stage and screen.