Natalie Welber

Natalie Welber

Natalie Welber is a Maryland-raised, Chicago-based writer, actor, and educator. She earned a BA in both Theatre and Religious Studies at Northwestern University, and spends her days substitute teaching middle school. As such, she's usually writing about teenage perceptions of personal identity and nontraditional religious practice. Her proudest accomplishment is her multi-year Yiddish streak on Duolingo.

Plays

  • Judith Imeinu by Natalie Welber
    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Jewish, judaism + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Jewish, judaism, ethics, environmental policy, gender, safe water
    An industrial spill threatens a small town’s access to safe drinking water. Does a young woman have the personal responsibility to save the town if doing so might ruin individual lives, including her own?
    An enemy army camps outside a small Jewish town’s gates, threatening access to their water cisterns. A young woman takes on the personal responsibility to save her town. She says she acts with – for –...
    An industrial spill threatens a small town’s access to safe drinking water. Does a young woman have the personal responsibility to save the town if doing so might ruin individual lives, including her own?
    An enemy army camps outside a small Jewish town’s gates, threatening access to their water cisterns. A young woman takes on the personal responsibility to save her town. She says she acts with – for – her God. Is it right? And should we, today, follow her lead?
  • Monday Morning Still in the Park with George by Natalie Welber
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: activism, generational divide + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: activism, generational divide, art museum, Ten-Minute Play, comedy
    Lizzie is trying really hard to do some viral activism. George is trying really hard to not have some girl's activism make his workday involve extra paperwork. A fresh ten-minute comedy, MONDAY MORNING STILL IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE invites all of us to reevaluate which causes we're willing to fight for, and what role art plays in that fight.
  • When She Went to Mantua by Natalie Welber
    Cast: 
    4–15
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    Genre: adaptation, mystery/thriller + 1 more
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    Keyword: grief, Shakespeare + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: grief, Shakespeare, adaptation, climate anxiety, love, ghosts, revenge, vengeance, tragedy
    Lady and Lord’s daughter, Jules, is dead, and someone is going to pay. While attending grief counseling sessions, the parents discover that their counselor, Lawrence, had a hand in Jules’ death. They plot revenge, but off in Mantua, Jules is still alive. Probably. Her happy-ever-after is so unhappy that she’s beginning to wonder if the fake-your-death potion was really poison. Her husband, Ro, can’t stop...
    Lady and Lord’s daughter, Jules, is dead, and someone is going to pay. While attending grief counseling sessions, the parents discover that their counselor, Lawrence, had a hand in Jules’ death. They plot revenge, but off in Mantua, Jules is still alive. Probably. Her happy-ever-after is so unhappy that she’s beginning to wonder if the fake-your-death potion was really poison. Her husband, Ro, can’t stop thinking about the people he killed to get to this honeymoon. Shadows keep seeping out of the walls to haunt both star-crossed couples, and the earth is heating up, and the world is ending, and we’re all gonna fucking die anyways so can love be enough when you aren’t even sure that love exists?

    Eventually, one of these households is going to have to face the fate ordained by Shakespeare’s prologue. Remixing Romeo & Juliet with a sprinkling of Macbeth and brand new poetry and prose, WHEN SHE WENT TO MANTUA hurtles into a rapidfire manifesto on how we grapple with the ghosts of our past – before the future ceases to exist.