Nathan Sanders received the Oppenheimer Award nomination from "New York Newsday" for the "most impressive debut of a new American playwright" for the Off-Broadway production of his first play, "The Sugar Bean Sisters", at the WPA Theatre in New York City. The world premier production was directed by Evan Yionoulis. Since that time, the play has been produced at various regional theatres across the country, including Florida Repertory Theatre in Fort Myers, Florida, Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg, West Virginia, Hippodrome State Theatre in Gainesville, Florida, Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana, Studio Theatre in Sacramento, California, WaterTower Theatre in Addison, Texas and the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA.

In the spring of 2003, "The Sugar Bean Sisters" enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at Company of Angels Theatre in Los Angeles. "L.A. Weekly" called it "a wildly funny script" while "The Los Angeles Times" simply declared the play "hilarious!" Selections from "The Sugar Bean Sisters" have been published in "One On One: The Best Women's Monologues For the Nineties" by Applause Books. The full script is published by Dramatic Publishing Company. San Jose Stage Company presented the Northern California premiere of "The Sugar Bean Sisters" in the fall of 2005. Upcoming productions include Naples Players in Naples, FL and Market Street Theatre in Paducah, KY. 

A staged-reading of Nathan's play, "Little by Little", was presented in December 2004 at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood. Tony Dow directed an all-star cast that included Meredith Eaton (TV’s "Boston Legal") and film legend Piper Laurie. Grove Theater Center in Burbank, CA presented a staged-reading of the new draft of "Little By Little" in February 2008 with Meredith Eaton, Pauley Perrette and Marcia Wallace. Nathan's one-act play, "Sweet Jesus!" was presented as a staged-reading at the Marsh, a "breeding ground for new performance" in San Francisco. The world premiere was presented at Pegasus Theatre Company in Monte Rio, CA and subsequently produced by Three Wise Monkeys & Thunderbird Theatre Co. and presented at the 6th Annual BOA Festival at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco in March of 2007. "Sweet Jesus!" was presented at the San Francisco Theatre Festival in the summer of 2007 and is published in the BOA Festival Anthology of One-Act Plays Vol. 6.

Nathan's most recent play, "The Sugar Witch", Part II in "The Sugar Bean Trilogy" of plays, received its world premiere at Northside Theatre Company in San Jose, California. The production opened October 4, 2007.  Upcoming film projects include "Heart In The Sand", an original screenplay with filmmaker Hamlet Sarkissian (“Camera Obscura”) and the motion picture adaptations of "Little By Little" & "The Sugar Bean Sisters".

Nathan studied playwriting with Howard Stein, Associate Supervisor of the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama. He lives in San Francisco and is an active member of the Dramatists Guild of America.