Natalie Robin is a Philadelphia-based lighting designer whose work focuses on new American plays, contemporary dance, unexpected musicals and site-specific performance. She believes that design is dramaturgy and is interested in how the generative text for work can be found in movement as much as in language. Her work expresses emotional narratives through light as an ephemeral and time-based medium.
Natalie is the Head of Theater Design & Technology in the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts. She has been a faculty member or guest artist at Bard, Muhlenberg, Hofstra University, the University of New Haven, NYU/Tisch, Brooklyn College, the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Williams College, and Alfred University.
Her most recent collaboration FIXING with choreographer Meg Foley premiered at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial where she also spoke on the panel: “Pedagogy: Conversations about teaching of performance design: views, perspectives and evolutions.”