Natalie is a stage and film actress, Having grown up singing and dancing, she loved making up routines in her front yard to her Fergie CD as a girl, and that love evolved into a passion for performing arts. She graduated in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre from Nebraska Wesleyan University. She has a  classical voice background that transitioned into musical theatre. She has been taught under the instruction of David Barrus, Anne McAlexander, and Natalie Weiss . With a versatility in roles from legitimate engenues, spunky sidekicks, sexy chorus girls, warm matriarchs, and belt-y anti-heros, she creates truthful characters through Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov based methods. She has explored and developed several characters on film as well. She is an avid quad roller-skater, a seamstress, a certified yoga teacher, a published and award-winning poet, a reader, a barista/coffee connoisseur, a plant lover and a cat mom. She currently resides in Abingdon, VA and is second-year resident player with The Barter Players, an extension of the historical  Barter Theatre.  As a Barter Player, Natalie acts in theatre for young audiences with the goal and intention to bring stories to a community that is often underserved in the arts. During the 2025 season, Natalie worked as a service-minded artist, honing in on new skills and tending to previously crafted ones. She worked on over 10 shows at Barter, some of their mainstage season including How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Anne of Green Gables, where she served as assistant dance captain for both productions. She also understudied Dyanne in Million Dollar Quartet, Ana in The Book Club Play and even got to swing on for a few performances in A Few Good Men. As a player, she got to perform for thousands of children from the beautiful Appalachian region, an area that is often underserved in the arts. Some TYA shows from the season included The Reluctant Dragon, The Call of the Wild, The Jungle Book, Pete the Cat and Jingle All the Way! Natalie will be continuing with that same service minded work in 2026 in shows such as Peter Pan, Cinderella, The Sword and the Stone, Tom Sawyer and Here Comes Suzy Snowflake, as well as supporting their resident company's mainstage season as Jovie in Elf, Merilla in Kate Hammill's Dracula, dancing in the hotbox in Guys and Dolls, as well as understudying Patsy in Always, Patsy Cline, Diane in Come From Away and Lady De Winter in The Three Musketeers.