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 at Brooklyn College and 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
Recently, Natalie designed The Bad and the Better, directed by Daniel Aukin (read the review here); made her regional theater design debut with Next Fall and God of Carnage at Dallas Theater Center; and designed the wildly successful Cardinal Stage Company winter production of The Wizard of Oz, directed by Randy White. This spring, she is designing Little Lord (a theater company)'s Pocahontas and/or America, the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene's Di Megile Fun Itzik Manger and A Collection of Shiny Object's production of queerSpawn.
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Additional Skills Include:
Lighting Supervision, Production Management, International and Domestic Touring, Vectorworks Drafting and Teaching, Lightwright, Photoshop, Mac/PC Computers, web design, technical writing, photography (film and digital), can read music, elementary French and German
Recent International Touring includes:
TAP/Poitiers, Poitiers, France; Opera de Lille, Lille, France; Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany; The Next Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium; La Bâtie Festival, Geneva, Switzerland; Black Box Teater, Oslo, Norway; Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria; Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, France; Pavilion Noir, Aix-en-Provence, France; Theatre Garonne, Toulouse, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Theatre Pole Sud, Strasbourg, France; Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland; Norwich/Norfolk Festival, Norwich, UK; Queer Up North, Manchester, UK
Recent Stage Directions magazine articles include:
Revisiting the Roadmap (October 2012)
The Color of Rep (August 2012)
Putting It All on The Table (March 2012)
A Scaffold for Light (January 2012)
Yes Men (September 2011)
Recent Live Design articles include:
Stages of Sleep No More Part 1, 2, 3 (April 2013)
Flying to New Heights with Quixotic (December 2012)
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)