Natalie Robin Lighting Designer Natalie Robin Lighting Designer Natalie Robin: I am a Philadelphia-based lighting designer, educator and organizer whose design work focuses on new American plays and musicals, contemporary dance and site-specific performance. I believe that design is dramaturgy and am interested in how the generative text for work can be found in movement as much as in language. My work expresses emotional narratives through light as an ephemeral and time-based medium. I use she/her pronouns. I love musicals. Recent collaborations include: The Wanderers at City Theatre Company; Backing Track at the Arden; The Sorceress for the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene; Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man at the Wilma; Rachel and Awake and Sing, both at Quintessence Theater Group; and The undergird choreographed by Meg Foley. My most recent collaboration with choreographer Meg Foley, FIXING, premiered at the site-specific performance festival FORMATIONS at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. I have had many longtime artistic homes, and one of the longest is Target Margin Theater, of which I am an Associate Artist. I am the full time staff organizer for United Scenic Artists / IATSE Local USA 829, for whom I served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Eastern Region. I aim to advocate for transparency, inclusion and deepened organizing within the union and community. I am currently part of the NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Workers’ Institute Union Leadership Institute, Class of 2022. From 2017-2023, I was the Program Director of Theater Design & Technology in the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. At the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, I was invited to speak on a panel entitled “Pedagogy: Conversations about teaching of performance design: views, perspectives and evolutions.” Since then I have been leading workshops to help educators engage with design students by deconstructing the traditional capitalist, hierarchical, ego-driven collaborative structure. Previously, I have been a faculty member Industry Specializations Live Performance Concerts Dance Opera Theatre Skills Basic Drafting - Computer (LD) Drafting - Hand (LD) Lighting Consoles EOS/ION (LD) Express (LD) Expression (LD) Obsession (LD) Strand (LD) Software Lightwright (LD) Vectorworks (LD) Languages French German Email Me Print this Page Your Email Address Subject Message Valid email address and subject required Cancel
Natalie Robin Lighting Designer Natalie Robin: I am a Philadelphia-based lighting designer, educator and organizer whose design work focuses on new American plays and musicals, contemporary dance and site-specific performance. I believe that design is dramaturgy and am interested in how the generative text for work can be found in movement as much as in language. My work expresses emotional narratives through light as an ephemeral and time-based medium. I use she/her pronouns. I love musicals. Recent collaborations include: The Wanderers at City Theatre Company; Backing Track at the Arden; The Sorceress for the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene; Dionysus Was Such a Nice Man at the Wilma; Rachel and Awake and Sing, both at Quintessence Theater Group; and The undergird choreographed by Meg Foley. My most recent collaboration with choreographer Meg Foley, FIXING, premiered at the site-specific performance festival FORMATIONS at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. I have had many longtime artistic homes, and one of the longest is Target Margin Theater, of which I am an Associate Artist. I am the full time staff organizer for United Scenic Artists / IATSE Local USA 829, for whom I served as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Eastern Region. I aim to advocate for transparency, inclusion and deepened organizing within the union and community. I am currently part of the NYS AFL-CIO/Cornell Workers’ Institute Union Leadership Institute, Class of 2022. From 2017-2023, I was the Program Director of Theater Design & Technology in the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. At the 2019 Prague Quadrennial, I was invited to speak on a panel entitled “Pedagogy: Conversations about teaching of performance design: views, perspectives and evolutions.” Since then I have been leading workshops to help educators engage with design students by deconstructing the traditional capitalist, hierarchical, ego-driven collaborative structure. Previously, I have been a faculty member Industry Specializations Live Performance Concerts Dance Opera Theatre Skills Basic Drafting - Computer (LD) Drafting - Hand (LD) Lighting Consoles EOS/ION (LD) Express (LD) Expression (LD) Obsession (LD) Strand (LD) Software Lightwright (LD) Vectorworks (LD) Languages French German Email Me Print this Page