Nathan Peter Grassi
Nathan Peter Grassi is a performer, writer, director and theatremaker, best known as half of the comedy duo Nathan & Ida, who have toured the UK and Europe with their award-winning, five-star shows Nathan & Ida’s Hot Dog Stand, Tropez! and TEMPUS FUGIT.
He’s also part of the award-winning sketch and improv comedy group The Dead Secrets, which has toured the UK and internationally with their surreal sketch comedy shows and improvised Golden-Age detective story, Hickory Dickory Murder.
In 2010, Nathan co-founded Troika Theatre, directing their production of Kindertransport, and producing their 2026 documentary about community theatre, Troika: Recollections. Nathan is also an award-winning director of the comedy-detective podcast Victoriocity.
Nathan is a cabaret artist and co-producer of the sell-out Be My Cabaret; host of the Comedy Scratch Night; and Concert Manager for the Oxford Bach Soloists. He was born and raised in Western Australia, where he trained in physical theatre.
Theatre roles include Romeo (Romeo & Juliet), Rupert Cadell (Rope), Percy (Queers), Lord Arthur Savile (Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime) and Prime Minister Howthorth in All of Them, Dead (Everybody Panic); voice roles include Cameron Sawyer (Jack Valentine: Vampire Detective), Rocco (The Amelia Project) and, among others, Prince Albert (Victoriocity).
