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Grew up in a northern trailer park in Flint and ended up running one in the south outside of Nashville. Unschooled screenwriter and playwright writing sharp comedies with big feelings about identity, class, and breaking free of the past.
Nate Eppler is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and teaching artist. His work features propulsive narratives about dynamic, messy characters caught in the struggle between who they are and who they want to be. His characters are lost and fighting to find a way out of those weird American corners that have their own gravity (dead malls, trailer parks, Silicon Valley, Central Florida.)
He is a recipient of the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn New Play Award, was named to the Neukom Literary Arts Award shortlist, and was awarded Best Tennessee Writer / Best Screenplay by the Nashville Film Festival for his television pilot FLORIDAMEN. Eppler’s plays include THE ICE TREATMENT (Osborn Award, Finalist Steinberg New Play Award, Great Plains Theatre Conference) PRIMARY USER (Neukom Literary Arts Award Shortlist, Ashland New Plays Festival) and LONG WAY DOWN (Semi-Finalist Steinberg New Play Award.) As an arts advocate, he was previously lead artist and writer-in-residence for the Ingram New Works Project and is currently program director of the Playground, a new play incubator for student artists in the mid-South designed to help young writers develop tools to tell their own stories. Nate Eppler is represented by Writ Large Management |
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