Natalie Sebastian

Instructor

Natalie Sebastian is an accomplished singer, actress, and dancer whose career spans theatre, opera, television, and film. She has performed with renowned companies including the Stratford Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Drayton Entertainment, the Charlottetown Festival, and Opera Lyon in France.

Some of her favourite stage roles include Demeter in Cats (Drayton Festival), Anita in West Side Story (Stage West), Josie Pye in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival), Suzie in The Great Adventure, and Sheila in Swing Step.

Her film and television credits include the role of Theresa Estrada in the Mayday series, assistant choreographer on the Disney film Eloise, Stormy Weather, the Gemini Awards, and various commercials. She has also appeared in Schitt’s Creek (Season 5), as a dancing parent in a film choreographed by Twitch, and in episodes of The Boys, Murdoch Mysteries, and the pilot project Madlock.

Natalie is an award-winning teacher and choreographer, currently instructing students of all ages at multiple dance studios, high schools, and colleges across Southwestern Ontario. She has been a registered R.A.D. (Royal Academy of Dance) teacher since 1994 and a certified Russian Society ballet instructor since 2008, ACTRA and the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and a graduate of George Brown College.
She has adjudicated numerous dance festivals and competitions across Canada and the United States, and she is the founder of her own competitive dance event, En Pointe & Just Dance. Her contributions to the arts have been recognized with a Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award and a Tyrone Guthrie Award from the Stratford Festival

Through her company, Manchild Productions, Natalie has produced two professional stage productions—Transit and Silver Threads—at the Registry Theatre in Kitchener. She has also produced The Nutcracker with children for over 20 years.