About Natalie
An opera singer in a former life, Natalie’s flair for the dramatic was a natural entree into writing plays and musicals. Her full-length works have been developed/seen at the Lark, the Pocantico Center, the Aurora Fox Arts Center, New York Film Academy, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and the Brick. Short works have been produced across the country at the 1MPF, the Storefront Theatre, Left Hip Productions, and ESPA-Primary Stages, among others. She has written the book for two musicals with composer/lyricist Kat Sherrell: UnSung and Sweethearts of Swing. Both were recognized as Eugene O’Neill NMTC semi-finalists, and Sweethearts was also a NAMT Festival finalist, NAMT grant recipient, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund grant recipient. The book for her most recent musical, Home, was workshopped in July 2026 in coordination with the Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab.
Natalie is the co-founder of Lather Rinse Repeat: A Playwrights’ Collective, and has produced a number of new works festivals and short play showcases. She is also the Founder and Program Director for the Emerging Writers Residency at Circle in the Square Theatre School, where she has been musical theatre faculty for over ten years. Natalie’s singing career spanned both opera and musical theater, and now as a voice teacher, her students perform on Broadway, Off-Broadway, on national tours, and with regional theaters across the country.
Full-Length Works
About HOME:
As Carol wrangles with a constantly shifting reality due to her advancing dementia, her husband, daughter and even her cat Pixie also find their lives upended. Music take us into Carol’s mind in an attempt to answer the unanswerable question of what a person with dementia is thinking and feeling. HOME reaches for the light in the darkness of this cruel disease with song, dance, talking animals, and a generous sprinkling of humor.
(Un)Sung
A New Musical by Nat & Kat
If a person walked on the planet, did they really exist, if nobody wrote it down? Nat & Kat gather vibrant historical figures — some of whom made it into history books and some who didn’t — into one room to illuminate both history and present day by allowing these women’s stories to sing. A full-length one-act with simple production values; cabaret-style with a generous dose of magical realism. Like (but also unlike) Top Girls, Follies, Gloria: A Life, Vagina Monologues, Working, Songs for a New World.
1943: One ambitious bandleader, one girl running from home, and another with nothing to run to come together in a “colored” all-female swing band touring the Jim Crow South. In defying both law and convention by crossing the color line to play the music they love, these women set off a chain of events that has life-altering consequences. Inspired by true stories.
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Catherine’s violent and bloody blackouts inflame her most primal fears. Her world falls increasingly out of orbit as the cause eludes explanation. Forces pull at Cat from every direction: her sister needs her to be normal; her stalker aches to save her; and her would-be-lover hungers to satisfy her most voracious desires. Catherine is desperate for answers, but the truth may prove more terrifying than her wildest nightmare….
A young woman expects to die; an old woman expects to live forever. A mystical inn has its own ideas.
When a mother’s death forces a father and daughter to confront their contentious past, will the truth break them apart or bring them together?