Natalya Baldyga, Actor, Theatre Historian

Natalya Baldyga is a director, actor, educator, and historian. In the Boston area, she has directed for Sleeping Weazel, at Tufts University, for Whistler in the Dark’s Playwright Incubator Program, and at Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine. Recent performances include multiple roles for the “Half the History” film project and for the Poets’ Theatre of Boston. She has taught theatre history, theory, literature, and performance at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Gustavus Adolphus College, the Florida State University, and Tufts University, and currently teaches U.S. and world history at Phillips Academy, Andover. She is also a translator and adaptor, and is at work on an original script with the working title Blood, Breath, and Bone: meditations on the body during a time of plague. Natalya’s research focuses on theater historiography, cultural identity, and the performing body in eighteenth-century Europe. Her published essays include "Sensate Cognition and Properly Feeling Bodies: G. E. Lessing, Acting Theory, and Emotional Regulation in Eighteenth-Century Germany" (Theatre Survey, 2017).