Nathan Leigh & The Crisis Actors Announce New EP

Nathan Leigh & The Crisis Actors are excited to announce their new EP House On Stilts, set to be released on November 19th, 2021. House On Stilts serves as a follow up to the band’s latest full-length album, Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Stuff I Made Up To Sound Interesting, which was released in April 2020. The new EP will be accompanied by a stop-motion animated short film, which Leigh began working on in 2011.

On the forthcoming EP, Leigh shares: “This is a story about feeling like the world is so broken that it can never be fixed and wanting to escape and give up. The chorus to ‘Call-Out Post’ is the rejoinder to that impulse: ‘when you feel like giving up, that’s when you can’t give up.’”

Nathan Leigh is a composer, writer, animator, and activist. He has composed music and designed sound for over 300 plays at theatres across the country including American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Cherry Lane Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, The Debate Society (Gothamist: Best Sound Design 2007 for The Eaten Heart), Stoneham Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2009 for Strangers On A Train), Central Square Theatre (IRNE Best Sound Design 2010 for The Hound of the Baskervilles), and many more.

With Kyle Jarrow, Nathan co-created the musicals Big Money (WTF Boris Segall Fellowship 2008) and The Consequences (World Premiere 2012 at WHAT). With the Liars and Believers ensemble, Nathan Leigh composed scores for adaptations of Song of Songs, Icarus, and A Story Beyond. With Megan Sass, he is the composer and lyricist for The Mad Scientist’s Guide (NYC Fringe 2015). Nathan is the composer and playwright of Let’s Start a Zine, Orpheus, the Liar, and Our Lady of the Holy Powerstrip, as well as the serialized musicals Sealand! and William Henry Harrison: Time Detective.

Nathan is a founding member of the long-running arts activist collective The People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, whose work has been instrumental in crafting visuals for large scale mass demonstrations since 2011. Their signature puppet, Lady Liberty, was recently displayed at the Musée de la Civilization in Quebec City. PPOWS have appeared multiple times as part of La Mama’s legendary puppet slam. Since 2010, Nathan has worked as the staff music columnist, interviewer, and mixtape producer for Afropunk. His latest full length album with band The Crisis Actors Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Stuff I Made Up To Sound Interesting was released in April 2020.

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