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Natasha has over 35 years experience in commercial entertainment (producing, performing, choreography, directing domestically and internationally). She is on the producing team for Broadway musicals The Prom, directed/choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls, Aladdin, Book of Mormon, Spamelot, Something Rotten) and Half Time, directed/choreographed by Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Pretty Woman, Kinky Boots).

With a passion for musical theatre, dance and story telling, Natasha is especially focused on developing new musical theatre narratives that shift paradigms for the representation of women and the under-represented. As Artistic Director of New Musical Development, she has produced workshops at U.T. such as Princesses by Cheri & Bill Steinkellner (Sister Act, Cheers) and David Zipple (City of Angels), ZM  by Greg Kotis & Mark Hollman (Urinetown), Giant Steps by Michael Dexter & Eric Weinberg directed by Billy Porter (Kinky Boots), Midsummer Nights by Valerie Vigoda & Brendan Milburn, Persuasion by Harold Taw & Chris Jeffries. Performing highlights include Cats (Nat’l Tour), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (German Premiere/Cast album), Joseph and the Amazing Techni-Color Dreamcoat (German Premiere/Cast Album), and MGM series Fame.

Natasha is an award winning television producer (WCVB-TV, WSB-TV, CNN, nationally syndicated magazine Healthbeat with Dr. Timothy Johnson, host of Streetbeat (NYC) and Healthstyles (LA). Natasha is the producer and writer of the University of Texas video series "A Conversation With" in which she interviews entertainment industry icons, change makers and emerging talent. She is Arts Management Faculty in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas developing and teaching  curriculum associated with the practice of producing in the entertainment sector.


Associations

AEA-Actors Equity Association

SAG/AFTRA-Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

SDC-Society of Directors and Choreographers

NAMT-National Alliance of Musical Theatre