Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

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

His work has been nominated for the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright (for Blood Red Apples & Deep Gold Honey), the BBC Writersroom Popcorn Award for Best New Writing (for In Everglade Studio), and an Offie (for Port City Signature), and won a Bursary Prize for 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, was 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. His thriller Port City Signature and comedy Press were published not long afterwards, totaling three published works in 14 months.

Brimmer-Beller has directed and edited multiple short films, including Evening Plans (nominated for Best Short Film in the New Visions category at the Edinburgh International Film Festival) and B-Roll, premiered in London at Side/Step Festival. He also wrote the radio play Turner & Turner, and the acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe plays Mack The Knife, Technicolor, and Fear of Roses. 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).

Brimmer-Beller has collaborated with the 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.