Nathan Mosher is one man doing a show about doing the show of your dreams and failing miserably.

Nathanael Philip Mosher is one man doing a show and he’d love to have people there for him to share his story with. 

Ever since he watched Demetri Martin’s Perrier Award-winning solo show, If I, at age 17, Nathanael Philip Mosher has dreamt of developing an autobiographical multimedia one-man show. Through a series of tumultuous yet life-changing events, he now has the story to tell.

In his award-winning debut solo show, Mosher takes the audience on an emotional rollercoaster, navigating deftly through joke, lyric, and song, or as he defines them, paraprosdokians. A family tragedy coupled with the abrupt downfall of a high-flying relationship leaves Mosher unable to cope and his rapid descent into mental agony takes him from hospitals to residential facilities and ultimately, recovery. Mosher decides to deliver his lessons learned from a life put back together through stand-up, songwriting, and poetry for a well-rounded yet grounded storytelling extravaganza, displaying his penchant for rhythm, rhyme, and the power of the spoken word to heal. 

After a year of isolation due to the pandemic, Mosher received the long-awaited privilege of performing his show at the 2021 Orlando Fringe Festival, where he sold out 5 shows in a row culminating in his first ever standing ovation. In the summer of 2022, he embarked to London in order to preview the show in preparation for a full run of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a goal he had set when he was just 17 years old. However, sometimes a story told is not always a story finished. While previewing his show in London to the first of many reviews, he received news that his fellow peer and comedic alumnus, Jak Knight, had committed suicide. Mosher could remember less than a decade before when the two of them would cautiously sit behind red tape, waiting to perform at a comedy club they were too young to legally be a part of. Shortly thereafter at the festival of his dreams, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he found himself confronted with one of the biggest challenges of his creative career where many times he could nary muster a single soul to hear his story. After multiple show cancellations, Mosher took the week off to crawl out of a burgeoning depression reminiscent of his previous bouts. With the encouragement and support of his new long-term girlfriend, Mosher decided to re-write the show and finish out the run, infusing his newfound perspective on the pain outgrown from the events of that summer. 

From there he took the new show to the Vancouver Fringe Festival, making edits along the way during his six show run, culminating in the reception of the “Artistic Risk Award”. It was there that Mosher’s efforts to go in “new and daring directions that push traditional limits and expectations” were deemed successful by a jury of five led by Vancouver Fringe Executive Director, David Jordan. Each of the judges agreed that Mosher gave a “completely raw, hilarious, and sometimes painfully touching experience”. Mosher dedicated the award and cash prize to his mother, whose help and support not only funded the journey, but gave Mosher the courage to continue telling his story. All in all, Mosher finally experienced and understood fully the newfound thesis of his show which sums up the power of the paraprosdokian, or “a phrase which turns unexpectedly such that the reader or listener re-evaluates the meaning of the previous line”:

“Pain leads to purpose leads to perspective summed up in the form of paraprosdokian, but none of that is possible without people and a hell of a lot of patience.” 

Nathanael Philip Mosher is one man doing a show and he is grateful for the privilege. 

Here is what the audiences are saying: 

“Nathanael is a lovely human being with lots to say and a lovely way of saying it” - Ben Moor

“Everyone should see his show” - Neurodiverse Review 

“Brave, bitingly funny, hilarious, endearing, brutally honest, and BRILLIANT” - Tod Kimbro, Co-Creator of Josephine (Critics Circle Award, Adelaide Fringe)  

“Nathan’s ability to speak on mental illness is accessible and revealing” - The Daily Bruin

“Mosher has a knack for lobbing outrageously incendiary punchlines, and then immediately defusing them with an innocent deflection, only to dive right back into the debauchery.” - Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly

“He’s like Hobo Johnson meets Bo Burnham” - Gabi Hockensmith, Orlando Fringe 

“Your son is very funny, you should be proud” - Jo Koy to Loida Mosher, Nathanael’s real-life mother

“Completely raw, hilarious, and sometimes painfully touching” - David Jordan 

“It’s a story worth hearing”  - Matt Palm, Orlando Sentinel