About
Natalie is a playwright, actress, improviser, and graduate of Kenyon College. Her play, The Power of Punctuation, premiered Off Broadway. The New York Times called it a "smart and incisive... oasis of entertainment." The Power of Punctuation was also a New York Stage and Film Founders Award finalist, and recipient of Kenyon College's James E. Michael Playwriting Award. She was a part of Fault Line Theatre's "Irons in the Fire" with her new play, All Nighter. All Nighter is currently in development with Broadway Video.
Natalie was the recipient of the inaugural New Play Residency from SheNYC, a company that strives to support female writers. Her play, The Day the Butcher Shop Closed was awarded “best production” at the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival. Natalie was a resident playwright at Colt Coeur in 2018 (artistic director Adrienne Campbell-Holt). She is currently commissioned by Colt Coeur to develop her play Bed Bath and Beyond. She was listed by Playbill as one of twenty playwrights to put on you radar in 2019.
In 2020, Natalie wrote a new play specifically for zoom titled The Party Hop. The Party Hop is available for purchase and licensing with Dramatist Play Service, and has been produced across the country in high schools and colleges throughout the pandemic. A reading of the play is also available on YouTube, starring Beanie Feldstein, Catherine Cohen, Ayo Edebiri, Ashley Park, Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever, Molly Gordon, Francesca Carpanini, Kathryn Gallagher, Max Sheldon, Olivia Puckett, and Noah Galvin directed by Josh Margolin (Natalie’s brother and friend.) The New York Times wrote a little bit about the reading here.
