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Chin up, now. Got to have thick skin down here. In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording studio to complete an Americana album, unaware that materials in the walls are driving them to the brink of insanity. As artistic, social, and racial tensions flare, the atmosphere grows thornier, the music grows stranger, and Everglade Studio''s mixture of creativity and claustrophobia demands its pound of flesh. Longlisted for the 2023 BBC Writersroom Popcorn Award for Best New Writing, In Everglade Studio is a ferocious comedic thriller from Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, featuring original music by Nathaniel and Aveev Isaacson.This edition was published to coincide with the run at The Hope Theatre in London, in April 2024.>
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Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller is a mixed-race, Black and Jewish playwright, director and actor. 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. Brimmer-Beller’s thriller Port City Signature and comedy Press were published not long afterwards, totaling three published works in 14 months.
Brimmer-Beller has directed more than thirty productions, and has written more than twenty plays, including seven acclaimed premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has directed multiple short films, including Evening Plans (nominated at the Edinburgh International Film Festival) and B-Roll, which premiered in London at Side/Step Festival. His production company Black Bat Productions continues to create original work for stage and screen.
