Natascia diaz biography of barack
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Natalie Diaz
She twirls it in her left hand,
a small red merry-go-round.
According to the white oval sticker,
she holds apple #4016.
I’ve read in some book or other
of four thousand fifteen fruits she held
before this one, each equally dizzied
by the heat in the tips of her fingers.
She twists the stem, pulls it
like the pin of a grenade, and I just know
somewhere someone is sitting alone on a porch,
bruised, opened up to their wet white ribs,
riddled by her teeth—
lucky.
With her right hand, she lifts the sticker
from the skin. Now,
the apple is more naked than any apple has been
since two bodies first touched the leaves
of ache in the garden.
Maybe her apple is McIntosh, maybe Red Delicious.
I only know it is the color of something I dreamed,
some thing I gave to her after being away
for ten thousand nights.
The apple pulses like a red bird in her hand—
she is setting the red bird free,
but the red bird will not go,
so she pu
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Interview: Natascia Diaz of WEST SIDE STORY at Signature Theatre
I've known Natascia Diaz for 13 years now. In 2003, I was producing a concert version of Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden as a benefit for the National AIDS Fund. Natascia stepped in to play Aphra, joining a cast that included Julia Murney, Norm Lewis, Laura Benanti, Darius deHaas, and Max von Essen. By that time, Natascia had already appeared on Broadway in The Capeman, Carousel, Seussical, and Man of La Mancha.
As Children of Eden was the first large-scale concert I'd ever organized, there was a "let's put on a show" feel that I'd never experienced. Everyone was in it to have a good time and raise money for an important charity. Egos were left at the door and we had a wonderful time. Natascia even jumped in to help choreograph one of the songs.
I became fast friends with Natascia and we'd grab coffee every once in a while to c
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Natascia Diaz
BIO
With striking versatility in roles from ‘Anita’ in West Side Story to ‘Fosca’ in Passion, in plays bygd John Patrick Shanley to Shakespeare, Natascia has been featured on stages across the country and abroad. After performing the role of Anita in New York City Ballet’s ‘West Side Story Suites’, her breakout performance in the subsequent National Tour garnered critical acclaim across the country and internationally, as well as Chicago’s namn Jefferson Award and St. Louis’s Kevin Klein Award. Her huvudgata credits and cast albums include Seussical (‘Bird Girl’) and the revival of The Man of La Mancha (‘Antonia’) in which she covered the role of ‘Aldonza,’ performing opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell. Off-Broadway shows include ‘Susan’ in tick, tick…BOOM!, Sondheim’s Saturday Night (Second Stage), ‘Esmeralda Agron’ in The Capeman (Public Theater, directed Diane Paulus), and the acclaimed revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris (Zipper Theatre).