BAFTA-nominated film maker, author, comedian

 
Nat Luurtsema, Phoebe Nicholls, Lu Corfield in THREE WOMEN WAIT FOR DEATH (short film 2015) Photographed by Jonathan K Harris
 

Nat was an award-nominated stand-up comedian for eight years, and took ten shows to the Edinburgh Fringe because she has a fetish for losing money.

She wrote and performed two series of a Radio 4 show, Jigsaw, with her sketch group… Jigsaw. Naming things is hard - Tom, Dan and Nat avoided doing it too often.

Her first short film, Island Queen, was nominated for a BAFTA in 2014. She then wrote or wrote/directed five more short films - Three Women Wait For Death, Wyrdoes, War Paint, Ouzo and Blackcurrant and Revenge Is A Dish - backed by Film4, Babycow, Film London, Big Talk Pictures, Creative England and the British Arts Council, BAFTA-longlisted and now playing on Amazon Prime.

Nat has a slate of features, as writer and/or director. Jennifer Saunders has just signed to star in Butterfly Stroke, a Swiss-set comedy directed by Denis Rabalgia.

She has two TV series in development, Household Name, a comedy about cancel culture, and Girl Out Of Water, a BFI-backed adaptation of one of her books.

Nat also writes short stories and has been nominated for the Royal Academy of Art and the V.S Pritchett Royal Society of Literature Short Story of the Year. As an author she has published five books, with Hodder and Stoughton, Walker Books, Panmacmillan and Harper Collins. Her sixth book is in development and is a graphic novel with Good Hero.

She is now working on her first play: Hot Girl Summer.