NATALIE ROSE is one third of the performance collective POST, Creative Director at Shopfront Arts Co-op, and has been involved in Australia’s Contemporary Arts scene for the past 22 years. Her work has been seen nationally and internationally at Sydney Festival, Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, Malthouse Theatre, Cambridge Junction (UK) and Sydney Opera House. Most recently with POST, Oedipus Schmoedipus has toured to Santiago Chile, West Kowloon Cultural Precinct Authority in Hong Kong and in 2020 was to be showcased as a part of AsiaTOPA at Arts Centre Melbourne. Their 2017 Sydney Festival work Ich Nibber Dibber was remounted at Sydney Opera House and Malthouse Theatre. Nat has facilitated workshops for the past 22 years for young and emerging artists with and without disability. Nat has a Bachelor of Arts (Theatre-making) from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean and has previously trained at PACT and Urban Theatre Projects as a member of their ensembles. In 2021, she directed Tiny Universe, a co-production between Shopfront and Milk Crate Theatre and was commissioned by Performing Lines to develop the first stages of a new work about Motherhood. In 2022, she will continue to develop this work, direct Shopfront’s Harness Ensemble in the third full-length work Where Shall We Meet? and devise a new work with Young People from Shopfront and ATYP titled The Lies We Were Told. Nat was most recently selected by the Australia Council for the Arts as a 2022 Arts Leader recipient.
Nat is an accredited Youth Mental Health First Aider