Nathan Pearson is a comedian, actor, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Atlanta, GA.
Nathan is a 2024 ATX Pitch Competition Finalist and ATX Pitch Lab participant with his half hour dramedy Swallows. In other recent news, Nathan’s original half hour dark comedy, Ill Will, landed him in the Outfest 2022 Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer and as a 2024 WeScreenplay TV Pilot Lab quarterfinalist, and his What We Do In The Shadows spec script entitled “The Gnomes” won at the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition.
Nathan’s writing has also been featured on HBO’s Humans By Orientation platform, UCB Character's Welcome where his “Guy F**ks His Bully’s Dad” sketch performance became a viral sensation, WUSSY Mag, and via branded content at Paramount. Around NYC, Nathan’s performed characters and stand up in multiple festivals and shows including the Always Happy Video Comedy Bop presented by the New York Comedy Festival, NY Sketchfest, and the Asian Comedy Festival. Online, Nathan has amassed a following on TikTok with over 60K followers and 17M views. He has been featured in Vulture, Instinct, Queerty, Logo’s NewNowNext, and more. Nathan holds a certificate in Screenwriting from NYU and famously portrayed "Jeremy" on Nickelodeon's iCarly as a youth.
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