Show Maker
CurrentNatasha Tsakos’ work blends live performance with cinematic techniques, technology, non-linear storytelling and music dynamics to make profound statements on the way we live in an utterly original language. Natasha conceptualizes, designs, storyboards, directs and produces live multimedia shows and often performs in them. She has created shows for the Discovery Channel, opened the G20 Summit, the Tribeca Film Festival, and performed at the Super Bowl with Cirque du Soleil. She has spoken at TED, Google, IBM Summit, The United Nations General Assembly, amongst others. Natasha has written 12 original works including a full-length interactive cartoon for Nickelodeon, and “COLOURS” a nonsense which won the Benjamin Franklin Digital Gold Award. Natasha's trajectory has ranged from TED talks and the United Nations to "a mind-boggling array of projects blending fantasy, technology, media and liberating performance". Natasha received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the University of Florida and New World School of the Arts, who honored her with the Alumni Recognition Award, the first in the college’s history. She has acquired backgrounds in tech, film, design, animation, and performance and trained with world renowned artists including Marina Abramović. Natasha was a finalist of the World Technology Awards presented in association with CNN, Time and Fortune Magazine; A Singularity University Alumnus and won the Global Impact Competition in 2015, a Google/NASA sponsored program focused on accelerating technologies to address Humanity's greatest challenges. She is a United Nations Women’s Entrepreneurship fellow, a former ambassador to the TwentyThirty UNSDSN Youth Project, founder emeritus of SingularityU Miami Chapter, an advisor of Exponential Creativity Ventures, and on the board of directors of TEDxBroadway. Fun Fact: Natasha holds a NASA Certificate of Training with Chamber Flight to FL250. Her moonshot is to create shows in outer space.
