Nat Luurtsema
- Writer, stand-up comedian and actor
Press clippings
Eggbox live format to showcase short films and live script readings
Comedian Joz Norris is setting up Eggbox, a new live comedy show format combining short film screenings and live script readings.
British Comedy Guide, 5th November 2023Letter to Edinburgh: Nat Luurtsema
Nat Luurtsema is taking a year off the Edinburgh Fringe. So she sent everyone else this letter.
Nat Luurtsema, ThreeWeeks, 12th August 2014Why free is the new funny
Bafta-nominated stand-up Nat Luurtsema on why Edinburgh has stopped charging for laughs...
Nat Luurtsema, GQ, 1st May 2014Nat Luurtsema on her Bafta-nominated comedy film
A dark comedy about a sperm-bank hiccup - made for just £1,000 - has been nominated in next month's Bafta film awards. Writer Nat Luurtsema is in a tizz.
Veronica Lee, Evening Standard, 21st January 2014My Edinburgh: Nat Luurtsema
The comic and writer may have ended up in A&E four years running, but she'd never go anywhere but Edinburgh in August.
Nosheen Iqbal, The Guardian, 13th August 2013Jigsaw: A comedy show that has got the ex-factor
When it comes to heartache they say time is a great healer. They don't say much about performing a comedy show about your ex, and another one with your ex. But that is what stand-ups Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema are doing at the Fringe.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 8th August 2013Fringe diary: Nat Luurtsema & Red Bastard
At the Edinburgh festival, Nat Luurtsema battles bad acoustics and a broken heart, David Quirk ponders cheating and Eric Davis's alter ego sets about demolishing some inhibitions.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 7th August 2013Top 5 free comedies at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Featuring Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Nat Luurtsema and John-Luke Roberts.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 2nd August 2013On late-night Radio 4 is a new sketch show from comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema.
Jigsaw's most notable characteristic - if indeed it is such a thing - is their brevity. Most of the sketches are very short, which given the fact the show is only 15 minutes long is a sensible move. The average length of the sketches appeared to be around a minute.
With such a format, it's key to try and makes the sketches hit the mark as often as possible; in this first episode most of the sketches didn't quite hit the mark, but when they did they really flied. My personal favourites was just one sketch in, when a couple are having sex; the women then gives her partner some strawberries, unaware of his allergy to them. I also quite liked the technology sketch with music about the "Bandwidth Bandito".
It's hard to sum up such a short show, but there are some gems hidden within this shower of sketches. I';l certainly be tuning in next week.
Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 25th February 2013Nat Luurtsema interview
Comedian Nat Luurtsema, 30, had to move back in with her parents at the age of 28 when she found herself temporarily homeless. She's written a book called Cuckoo In The Nest about her experience.
Andrew Williams, Metro, 9th May 2012