NATHAN EVANS
Nathan hosts VAUXHALLVILLE, a weekly cabaret at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern as Nathaniel De Ville. He has also hosted CABARET CAROUSEL at Madame JoJos and PUPPET GRINDER at the Little Angel Theatre. He is the creator of HEAVEN KNOWS I'M MISERABLE NOW - a musical inspired by the songs of The Smiths for casio-keyboard and puppets - WOW! - a recreation with puppets of Kate Bush's last live gig - ROCK'N'ROLL SUICIDE - the puppetry promo Bowie never made - PUNCH & JUDE - a new take on the puppetry classic for homosexual boys and girls - and RATHER BE DEAD THAN GAY - an ironic look at gay culture through his own sexual and romantic disasters - and ALIENATHAN. He recently wrote and directed his first pantomine - SNOW WHITE & THE 3 BEARS with Dusty Limits at the RVT and is currently collaborating with Polly Wiseman on ATOMIC - a spectacular on a shoestring with big blonde ambitions and with The Tiger Lillies on THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS.
Please vote for ATOMIC to appear in MY FIERCE FESTIVAL by April 7th.
PUPPETRY OF THE POPS - Nathan's trio of tributes to Morrissey, Bowie and Bush - premiered at at the Drill Hall and RATHER BE DEAD THAN GAY opened Sound in London's glittering West End. Nathan was part of DUCKIE's Olivier award-winning C'EST BARBICAN, GAY SHAME, and their KATE BUSH and MORRISSEY TRIBUTE NITES at the ICA and the Coronet. Other gigs have included Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, Bistrotheque, the Unity Theatre, the Tron, the Arches, the Junction, Soho Revue Bar, the Cochrane Theatre, Turnmills, Komedia, Hoxton Hall, Chat's Palace, Central Station, 291 Gallery, East End Collaborations, ActArt, 43 South Molton St, Pushka, Glastonbury, Bestival, Latitude, Tartan Heart and the Aldeburgh festival. ROCK'N'ROLL SUICIDE won the lo-budget film award in this year's Halloween film festival and has screened at the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (at the NFT and on tour), the Pride Festival, Skieve Filmer (Oslo), Pink Screens (Brussels), Mostra Internacional (Barcelona), LA Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Queer Up North, Curzon Soho, 93 Feet East, Exploding Cinema. Nathan won the 2005 Medium Rare New Talent Challenge and has been featured in The Face, Attitude, The Pink Paper, Boyz.
In previous lives he's been awarded an ACE bursary to write a play for The Bush Theatre. Previous plays include BABY, in the 1998 Royal Court Young Writer's Festival and GUERILLA GARDENING, which started at a BAC Scratch night, went on to the Pleasance Edinburgh and was revived at the Union Theatre. Nathan's documentary MEETING MR CRISP premiered at the NFT as part of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, toured nationally with the BFI and internationally with the British Council, screening in LA, New York, Vancouver, Cork, Israel, Berlin, Sydney, Turin. THE SIGNIFICANT DEATH OF QUENTIN CRISP was broadcast on Channel 4. BUYING TIME, a short drama, screened in the Raindance and Portobello Film Festivals. BUG CHASING was shortlisted for Film London's Pulse scheme. Nathan also plays with the FIVESOME wind quintet.
UPCOMING SHOWS
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
15.05.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
22.05.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
29.05.08, 8pm
ATOMIC as part of UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Bistrotheque, 27 Wadeson St, London E2
01.07.08, 9pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
03.07.08, 8pm
GAY SHAME
The Coronet, London
05.07.08, 9pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
10.07.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE in residence in the CABARET ARENA
Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk
18-20.07.08
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
24.07.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
31.07.08, 8pm
SEVEN DEADLY SINS with THE TIGER LILLIES
Speigeltent, Edinburgh
07-30.08.08
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
04.09.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
11.09.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
18.09.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
25.09.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
02.10.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
09.10.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
16.10.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
23.10.08, 8pm
VAUXHALLVILLE
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
30.10.08, 8pm
RVT PANTO
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
18.12.08, 8pm
RVT PANTO
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
22-24.12.08, 8pm
RVT PANTO
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
29-30.08, 8pm