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Based on the National Endowment for the Arts Scholarship-winning 2017 dark comedic play, CHATTER explores the destructive voices that tear us down from within our own mind.

Natasha Lewin is showrunner of drama podcast WHITE PRIVILEGE: RADIO PLAY. Her directorial debut, CHATTER, qualified for the 92 Academy Awards as Best Live Action Short. 

CHATTER won Best Unique & Artistic Film at the UCLAxFilmFest as well as Director's Choice at the FilmOneFest.

Natasha won the Black List Feature Fellowship for her script FREEDOM RIDES about the 1961 Freedom Riders. 

As a first-time playwright, Natasha was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship for CHATTER. She partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and donated a portion of their sold-out box office. CHATTER won Australia’s Short + Sweet Award..

In 2014, Natasha co-wrote the Best Feature screenplay STONER ROAD at the Laugh Factory’s Comedy Ninja Film Festival.

A four-time published author (one being a New York Times' bestseller), Natasha is also the co-creator and showrunner of ONCE UPON A TIMESTAMP alongside Randi Zuckerberg. This podcast updates fairy tales into modern, cautionary tales relating to tech addiction, gender bias, racism and misogyny. 

She's a former Los Angeles elected official; Managing Editor for High Times magazine; Chief Writing Officer for Zuckerberg Media. She leads Research for HBO's PAUSE WITH SAM JAY seasons 1&2, as well as a new series from W. Kamau Bell.

Natasha is Black and Jewish (and Christian). She was born hard of hearing. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Read Natasha's 2020 articles in:

Christian Science Monitor

Kveller

Natasha is repped by Anissa Dorsey of Great Dog Literary