Natasha Lee Martin was born in Providence, RI and began her career at the age of 5 when she was cast in a radio play for WSAR Radio called "The Man in the Snow". She has since has appeared in television and film roles on FOX, TLC, DISNEY, NIPPON TV JAPAN and many stages throughout Philadelphia, NYC, Los Angeles and across the USA. Natasha holds an MFA in Acting Pedagogy from VCU and trained at the Actor's Studio Program in New York City where she trained extensively in Stanislavski, Strasberg (Moscow Art Theater) Kazan, Hagen and Meisner and at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She also received instruction from world renowned director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde, The Miracle Worker) executive producer of Law and Order Estelle Parsons (Roseanne) and Digby Wolfe, writer of TV shows such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, All the Queen's Men and Fol De Rol. She also received training in Improvisation from Gary Austin, David Razowsky, Scotty Watson and Johnny Zito.
She also performs regularly in improvised theatre and in a project called "Martin & Shaw" (an hour of improvised theatre with fellow actor Cooper Shaw) which has completed successful residencies in NYC at The Living Theater, Gotham Comedy Club, Theater 54, The PIT (People's Improv Theater), The Creek The Cave and The Producer's Club.
She has performed at NYC theaters such as JACK, Brooklyn, Theater Lab, The Gene Frankel Theater, Raandesk Gallery, Roy Arias Theater, Theatre 54, Bryant Park and Union Square to thousands. Also in Philadelphia at Society Hill Playhouse, Adrienne Theater, Mummpuppet Theater, NJ PalaceTheater, VA Barksdale Theater, Richard Newdick Theater, Kansas City at Liberty Symphony Orchestra, Albuquerque, NM Hiland Theater and Sol Arts. She has also performed and taught in Los Angeles at venues such as Sacred Fools Theater, T.U. Studios, Greenlight Productions, The Lost Studio Theater, and collaborated on projects with faculty at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Some Professional Workshops taught include Theaterlab, NYC, LaMama, E.T.C. (Umbria, Italy), The Lost Studio Theater, Los Angeles, Northern Illinois University, Rutgers, Claro Talent (Phila), Sycamore Rouge, Virginia Commonwealth University, Theater Virginia and Kansas City University. She has also been awarded Faculty Excellence in Teaching and several grants to fund her dramatic writing and performance work. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Center for the Performing Arts) Innovation Grant for the solo show she wrote, performed and directed, "Confessions of a Synesthetic Sailor; An Interactive Journey Through High Seas". The show opened for the second time in NY to a successful run in Jan, 2015 at Theaterlab, NYC.
