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natalie layne

she/they - writer, sound artist, enemy of the low/highbrow dichotomy.

natalie layne's (she/they) plays include Sleeping on the Moon, The Exhibitions, I can tell you're in love., Support, I Do Not Lift This Stone Alone, A Solstice Howl, and Clouds of Salt and Cannon Smoke. She has contributed essays to Howl Round, Submittable, Entropy, and Bright Wall/Dark Room, and her fiction has appeared in Bone & Ink. After receiving her BFA in Production Design & Technology from Ohio University in 2014, Natalie spent the next decade working as a sound designer, composer, transcriber, pizza maker at a large grocery store chain, podcast editor, cocktail hour guitarist, script writer for educational videos, production assistant, data entry clerk, customer support agent, deliberately occasional busker, media producer, bassist for a powerpop band, project manager, and commercial baker. Born in New Jersey, educated in Ohio, and a lifelong spiritual resident of New York City, she currently resides in Philadelphia, at work on her second novel.

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Toward a Greater Empathy in the American Theatre
Essay

Toward a Greater Empathy in the American Theatre

22 May 2019

D.R. Baker examines some of the realities of artists working in the American theatre and explores how empathy can be harnessed to make the industry a more positive place to work.