Natalie Forester, Actress
Senior Artist für Musikdramatische Grundausbildung | Schauspiel
forester@mdw.ac.at

Natalie Forester studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Saarbrücken and at the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding in Munich. From 2004 to 2008, she was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Mainfranken Theatre in Würzburg and was awarded Best Actress at the 2007 Bavarian Theatre Days for her role as Nora in Ibsen's play of the same name. From 2012 to 2016, she was engaged at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, where she appeared as Clytemnestra in Oresteia, Rosalia in West Side Story and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, among other roles. Guest engagements have taken her to the Residenztheater Munich, the Grillo Theater Essen, the Junges Ensemble Stuttgart and the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, among others.

In addition to her work as an actress, she turned her attention to musical theatre and working with singers at an early age. As an acting coach, she has been involved in opera productions at the Würzburg Theatre, Koblenz Theatre and Stuttgart Opera. She has taught at the HfM Saar, HfM Würzburg, HfMdK Frankfurt and the Opera School of the HmdK Stuttgart. Since 2017, she has been teaching acting in the Master's programme in Opera/Musical Theatre at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Since the winter semester of 2024, she has been teaching students in Basic Training in Music Drama/Acting at the Department of Voice and Musical Theatre at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

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