Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based Afro-surrealist storyteller who writes for television, audio dramas (podcasts), and theater. He currently serves as the head writer for the Webby-nominated podcast "Live from Mount Olympus," co-directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston. He was also a freelance writer for Sesame Street and script editor for the podcast Cultureverse, narrated by Yara Shahidi and Kelly Marie Tran.
His plays have been developed or presented by New York Theatre Workshop, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Apollo Theater, JAG Productions, Roundabout Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, Crowded Fire Theater, The Lorraine Hansberry Theater, The Fire This Time Festival, Blackboard Reading Series, 48 Hours in Harlem, The Playwrights’ Center, and others.
He was commissioned by The New Black Fest for HANDS UP: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments, published by Concord Theatricals and adapted by BBC Radio. His play Esai’s Table was featured in Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project, mentored by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Danya Taymor.
His honors include a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, the National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwright Residency, the Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Residency, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Drinking Gourd Fellowship, a 2025 Democracy Cycle Commission from PAC NYC, and a Spring 2026 Hi-ARTS Space Residency.