Nat Moss, Screenwriter De Villa developed and wrote the screenplay for Washington Heights with longtime collaborator Nat Moss. Nat grew up in Houston, Texas before attending Brown University. He went to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab with de Villa in January 2000 for their script Little Angel, which placed in the top-30 (out of over 5,000 scripts) of the highly competitive Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Other scripts by Nat have advanced to the finals of the Paramount/Chesterfield and America's Best screenplay competitions. A former congressional speechwriter, Nat is the author of three books of nonfiction and has written on film for publications such as Vanity Fair and Film Comment magazines.