Natalie Robin is a NYC-based lighting designer of theater, opera, dance, music and performance art. She is the associate producer and production manager of American Realness, a festival of contemporary performance curated by Ben Pryor. She is a founding company member of Polybe + Seats and an Associate Artist of Target Margin Theater. She is also an adjunct faculty member in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Department of Undergraduate Drama. Natalie is the winner of the Apollo Lighting 2011 Standing O Award and was chosen as a 2008 Young Designer to Watch by Live Design Magazine. In 2009 and 2010, she participated in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and has been a guest artist at Williams, Bard and Muhlenberg Colleges. Natalie is a contributing writer to Live Design Magazine and Stage Directions. Her photography was exhibited at HERE Arts Center in conjunction with Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge. Natalie also tours both domestically and internationally as a lighting supervisor and production manager, for artists including Miguel Gutierrez, Taylor Mac, Jessica Dickey and Yehuda Hyman. BA: Columbia. MFA: NYU/Tisch
This spring, Natalie is returning to BAM for Poetry 2012 and to Williams College for The Importance of Being Ernest and designing Next Fall and God of Carnage at Dallas Theater Center and the five MFA playwriting plays at the New School for Drama.
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Additional Skills Include:
lighting supervision, production management, touring, Vectorworks drafting and tutoring, Lightwright, Photoshop, Mac/PC Computers, web design, technical writing, photography (film and digital), can read music, elementary French and German
Recent International Touring includes:
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (Designer: Lenore Doxsee)
HEAVENS What Have I Done : La Bâtie Festival, Geneva, Switzerland; Black Box Teater, Oslo, Norway; Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria, 2011
Last Meadow: Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, France; Pavilion Noir, Aix-en-Provence, France; Theatre Garonne, Toulouse, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Theatre Pole Sud, Strasbourg, France 2010-2011
Retrospective Exhibitionist: Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, France; Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland, 2010
Taylor Mac’s The Young Ladies of … Domestic and UK Tour (Designers: Juliet Chia, David Morris) 2009: Playmakers Repertory Theatre, NC; Norwich/Norfolk Festival, Norwich, UK; Queer Up North, Manchester, UK
Recent Stage Directions magazine articles include:
A Scaffold for Light (January 2012)
Yes Men (October 2011)
Recent Live Design articles include:
The RSC at the Park Avenue Armory (November 2011)
Collective Media Part 1 and Part 2 (November 2010)
Stuffed Animal Instincts (October 2010)
Spaced Out (September 2010)
War Crimes (September 2008)