ABOUT
Education:
Master of Music in Music Theory and Composition, New York University
Bachelor of Music in Musical Theatre, The Catholic University of America
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop
Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriters Project
Affiliations:
The Dramatist Guild
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)
Favorite musical genres:
70s and 90s rock, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Romantic-era piano music
Favorite musicals:
Les Miserables, Hair, The Last Five Years, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar
Favorite popular artists:
Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Billy Joel
Favorite classical works:
Mozart's Requiem, Bernstein's Mass, anything by Beethoven and Chopin
Fun Fact!
As a 3rd generation Czech on her father's side, Natalie can make kolaches from scratch (except she has Celiac's, so she makes them gluten free!)
Natalie Rebecca Lovejoy is an American composer/lyricist and playwright known for her work in musical theatre whom producers, performers, literary manages, master teachers and peers in the industry have described as "brilliant," "phenomenal," "sophisticated," "expressive," "deep," "glorious," and "divine.” Her debut musical Deployed, premiered off-Broadway in 2013 at the Abingdon Theatre, and went on to have a full production at the Gene Frankel Theatre in 2014, in addition to performances at 54 Below, Lincoln Center, and the New York New Works Festival.
Since then she has contributed songs to the musicals Hall Pass (Blindspot Collective), Club Meds (Mad Horse Theatre Company), and So Proudly We Hailed (New Musicals Inc), the latter of which won a Best Musical, Opera & Cabaret Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2024.
In 2022, she released her first full album of piano original piano solos, Piano Love which can be streamed on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and others.
Her most latest musical, House of Fallen Women, weaves together the lives of women in history who have been labeled as cautionary tales, treating their stories with complexity and depth, and revealing the rich, multifaceted experiences behind their labels.
Natalie approaches musical theatre writing from a humanist perspective and enjoys blending diverse musical elements to pioneer news ways of telling story through song.