NATHAN EVANS
Nathan created & hosted VAUXHALLVILLE, a 'spit 'n' sawdust spectacular' every week at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern for over two years. And in residence at the Latitude festival for the past two summers.
He's also hosted CABARET CAROUSEL at Madame JoJos and PUPPET GRINDER at the Little Angel Theatre.
He recently produced, directed, designed and scored DAVE'S DROP-IN CENTRE with David Hoyle at the RVT. Nathan & David previously collaborated on a DOROTHY NIGHT at the Royal Festival Hall in 2008.
Other productions for the RVT include their Mayfayre and a PANTOMIME TRILOGY.
Other collaborations include ATOMIC - a lo-fi lip-sync re-mix of Blondie's Greatest Hits with Polly Wiseman, 7 DEADLY SINS with The Tiger Lillies & Ophelia Bitz and FAIR with Dusty Limits & Fancy Chance. He's also worked with Taylor Mac & The Irrepressibles.
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.
He's 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 - RATHER BE DEAD THAN GAY - an ironic look at gay culture through his own sexual and romantic disasters - MOTHER OF THE FREE? - or The Queen Strips The Rights Of Her Subjects - and ALIENATHAN.
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. Other gigs have included The Famous Speigeltent, The New Players Theatre, 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 London Short 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 Time Out, The Face & Attitude.
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 studied Fine Art at Oxford University. After a dozen years attempting to make a living as an artist and entertainer Nathan filed for bankruptcylast year. He also plays with the LGSO and the FIVESOME wind quintet.
'gobsmackingly filthy' - The Telegraph
'a high camp attack on high art' - The Guardian
'talented, endearing & very alternative' - The Sunday Times
'There's nowhere else like VauxhallVille. Fast, friendly and hedonistically slapstick, it's a gem of a cabaret show that sticks two fingers up at pretentious performance and wallows happily in no-frills fizzy pop. Numerous highlights include Nathaniel's sublime performances. Watch the boy, watch the troupe. VauxhallVille's really going places.' Time Out
UPCOMING SHOWS
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S PANTOMIME
Royal Vauxhall Tavern, 372 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5HY
16-18.06.09, 8pm
(the fun of the) FAIR
Volupte, 9 Norwich St, London EC4A 1EJ
23.06.09, 8pm
(the fun of the) FAIR
Volupte, 9 Norwich St, London EC4A 1EJ
1-3.07.09, 8pm
THE SMITHS THE MUSICAL
as part of 'Mother's Ruin' at The Green Room, 54 Whitworth Street, Manchester M1 5WW
23.07.09, 8pm
PUNCH & JUDE
as part of Latitude, Henham Park, Suffolk
16-18.07.09