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NATALIE SCARLETT recently graduated from Hillsdale College in Michigan where she studied acting and directing. Past directing credits include Sarte’s No Exit and Pirandello’s Six Characters Looking for an Author, as well as numerous short plays. She was the first directing student in the history of her college to be chosen to direct a main stage play as part of her senior thesis. Natalie has participated in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival three times in the Irene Ryan Scholarship competition. Before moving to Colorado, she enjoyed working as a cast member for the Toledo Repertoire Theatre’s traveling children’s show and won the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s Student Monologue Competition. Favorite past roles include Laura in The Harvest Theatre Company’s The Glass Menagerie, Gertrude Stein/Woman with Notebook in Chamber Music,, and most recently, anarchic Wilma Eisennring in a punk rock Brechtian version of Beiderman and the Firebugs. Natalie hopes to return to school to work on furthering her knowledge of directing and performance studies in the next few years. She is thrilled to be working on her second play with OpenStage Theatre as Assistant Director and looks forward to next season.