Masterclass with Natascia Diaz

When: Saturday, November 1st at 1:30 pm, during MDDC NATS District Auditions

Where: CCBC Essex - 7201 Rossville Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21237

Application: Due Friday, October 24th - Apply Here

Attend the masterclass with renown performer Natascia Diaz. The class will focus on performance and storytelling. It will feature singers from advanced high schoolers through adult in the musical theatre and commercial music categories. Teachers can nominate their students for the class here. Nominations are due Friday, October 24th.

Biography

With striking versatility in roles from ‘Anita’ in West Side Story to ‘Fosca’ in Passion, in plays by John Patrick Shanley to Shakespeare, Natascia Diaz has been featured on stages across the country and abroad. After performing Anita in the New York City Ballet's "West Side Story Suites", she was hand-picked by both Jerome Robbins and Arthur Laurents for the National tour where her breakout performance garnered critical acclaim across the country and internationally, as well as Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award and St. Louis's Kevin Klein Award.  Her Broadway credits include Seussical (Bird Girl); the 2002 revival of Man of LaMancha (Antonia) in which she covered the role of Aldonza, performing opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell; and Paul Simon’s The Capeman. Off-Broadway shows include Susan in tick, tick...BOOM!, Sondheim’s Saturday Night (Second Stage), Esmeralda Agron in The Capeman (The Public Theatre, directed Diane Paulus), and the acclaimed revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Her recent New York credits include Fraulein Kost in the latest Broadway revival of CABARET, Rafaela in Grand Hotel (Encores!, directed by Josh Rhodes), and in January 2023 she made her Carnegie Hall debut in concert with New Kid Joey McIntyre.  Natascia has also worked extensively in Washington DC where she was named “one of the top 10 biggest stars in Washington DC theatre” (Washingtonian). Regional highlights include: Petra in A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center), the title role in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature Theatre),  Monica P. Miller in Rooms (Helen Hayes Award), Jacques Brel . . . (Helen Hayes Award), Jenny in Threepenny Opera (Helen Hayes nomination), Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre), originating the role of Betty#3 in the world premiere of Collective Rage (Woolly Mammoth), Sally in Follies (San Francisco Playhouse, Bay Area Critics nomination), Velma in Chicago (The Muny, St. Louis Critics Award nomination), and Gloria Fajardo in On Your Feet (The Muny, St. Louis Critics Award). Most notably, she took home her third Helen Hayes Award for her "obsessively watchable and gorgeously sung" (Washington Post) turn in a "career-defining performance" (BroadwayWorld) as Fosca in Signature's production of Sondheim's Passion. Film/TV credits include Every Little Step, “Oz”, “Law & Order, SVU”, “The Jury”, “Nurse Jackie”, “Damages”, and recurring on “FBI” (CBS) as Detective Cantrell. Visit www.NatasciaDiaz.com for more.