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Nathan is the executive producer and producer of the award-winning film, Dirty Laundry, which was released in theaters nationwide in December 2007. In 2008, Dirty Laundry was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Film. It is also nominated for a 2008 GLAAD Award. In 2006, Dirty Laundry took the top two honors, Best Picture and Best Actor (Loretta Devine), at the American Black Film Festival. In 2004, Nathan produced and starred in the award-wining film, The Ski Trip, which made history as the first black gay movie on television when it premiered on MTV Networks’ LOGO channel. It has become the most widely seen film of its kind.
For television, Nathan is the creator and executive producer of My Model Looks Better Than Your Model, hosted by America’s Next Top Model winner Eva Marcille Pigford. As well, he is the executive producer of Real Life Divas, which is the only show in history dedicated to profiling prominent African-American women, including Patti Labelle, Mo’Nique, Vivica A. Fox, Chaka Kahn, Veronica Webb and Deborah Martin Chase. Both shows air on BET & BET-J. Along with the fourth season of Real Life Divas, Nathan’s new series, Leading Men will begin airing this Fall.
Nathan has appeared on Showtime’s American Candidate, The Guiding Light, My Two Cents and The Bev Smith Show. He has been featured in Black Enterprise, Crain’s, Ebony, Jet, the Chicago Tribune, The Advocate, the New York Blade, Clik Magazine, PULSE, Bleu, UneQ, the Chicago Defender and several online publications. In November 2007, Nathan graced the cover of NEXT Magazine, which is the most widely circulated LGBT weekly magazine in the country. In addition, Nathan and his projects have been featured in Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, the New York Times, the LA Times, Essence Magazine, LA Weekly and HX Magazine.
Currently, Nathan and his producing partner, Crystal McCrary Anthony, are working on several projects, including the television series Swans. They are also in pre-production for three feature films based on the best selling and acclaimed novels: All The Women I’ve Loved by Byron Harmon, for which Nathan adapted the screenplay; Homecourt Advantage by McCrary Anthony and Rita Ewing; and, Passing, by Harlem Renaissance laureate Nella Larsen.
Born and raised in Chicago, Nathan began appearing in theatre, commercials and television shows at the age of 8. A classically trained dancer, Nathan continued to perform and study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After college, he attended the George Washington University Law School where he was the president of the Student Bar Association, a Dean’s Fellow and the recipient of the GW Law Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership. Nathan resides in New York City and is a proud member of the board of directors of Harlem United Community AIDS Center.