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Natalie Quinn, M.A.
Instructional and Graphic Designer, Content Writer and Editor, Video Editor, Professor, Director, Social Media and Marketing Manager, Training Specialist, Project Manager
Welcome! I'm Natalie Quinn.
Instructional and Graphic Designer, Editor, Professor.
Thank you so much for visiting my online portfolio!
I currently have the pleasure of doing instructional and graphic design and training with Compass Realty in New York City. I am an instructional designer, graphic designer, social media manager, corporate trainer, and professor with twenty years' experience and two master's degrees. I have decades of multi-faceted experience including full-course curriculum writing and auditing through Subject Online Learning in L.A., project management and curriculum design through Rutherford County Schools in Nashville, and I teach online courses using various Learning Management Systems through Bethel University. I use data and Kaizens to drive change in processes with excellent results. Accolades include entrepreneurial principle awards in the corporate world, excellent student scores in academia, and director of the best musical in Nashville according to Broadway World voters 2019 in the arts. I am a talented writer and editor, and I thrive on collaborating with colleagues and clients. I would love to hear from you so we can discuss your vision for your organization! Please peruse my portfolio and don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions! - Natalie Quinn
nataliequinn80@gmail.com
256.702.1954
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EDUCATION:
Master's in Theatre - 2018, Regent University, Virginia
Internship in Theatre - 2018, Globe Theatre, London, England
Graduate Certificate in TESOL - 2016, Southern Utah University
Master's in English - 2005, University of North Alabama
Bachelor's in Education - 2003, University of North Alabama
Grants, Nominations, and Awards
CEP Award for Moving Fast - COMPASS Realty - 2024
CEP Award for Collaborating without Ego - COMPASS Realty - 2023
Finalist for Tennessee Arts Teacher of the Year - Tennessee Performing Arts Center - 2022
Nominated for Outstanding Design Concept - TPAC - 2022
Nominated for Best Lighting - TPAC - 2020
Richard Seigel Foundation $10k Grant for Lighting - 2019
Winner, Broadway World Best Director of a Musical for
The Producers, Nashville - 2019
Winner, First Night Award Best Casting for Pirates of Penzance - 2018
Regent University Outstanding Graduate Student - 2018
TVASS award for training colleagues and raising client scores using data-driven methods of changing pedagogy - 2013
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Arsenic and Old Lace is a classic play albeit with a few racy lines written before we were sensitive to diversity and diplomacy. After studying at the Globe in London, I was inspired to write this "Woosh" - a game in which students become the characters and act out the whole show in less than ten minutes. It's great as an introduction to a new piece of literature, especially something challenging like Shakespeare.
When I performed dramaturgy services for the production of Steel Magnolias at Murfreesboro Center for the Arts, I created an actor's packet with resources for the actors to motivate them to perfect their accents, understand their characters, and learn more about the background of the setting, characters, and plot of the production. I did the same for a production of Othello. These packets really help the actors to study their roles without doing extra (inconsistent) research on their own.
I have adapted several novels and short stories for the stage. These have all been performed in community theatres or at the high school level.
I directed Pride and Prejudice in 2017. As much as I love the play's period, I felt it might be fun to set it in the 1920s when folks pretended that rules and etiquette were out the window, but they were really as relevant--or irrelevant--as ever. This is the proposal I created for the executive director of the theatre.
Projects, Videos, Instructional Design, Curricula
Intros and Outros for Instructional Design Videos - designed by me
Voiceover for COMPASS Realty Commercial - VO by me
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During the Pandemic, I had extra time to focus on my college students, so I designed this website full of videos to help my college classes to use MLA formatting more effectively. This website serves as a resource to them as they navigate the rough waters of MLA! These were edited using Playposit and Camtasia, 2020-2021. In anonymous feedback, students often comment on the convenience of these videos.
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I am an excellent technical writer and content writer for technology trends. I did the research, writing, editing, and graphic design for these two articles were written and designed for an Android Enthusiast company
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I researched and wrote this grant in 2019 for which we procured over $10,000 in funds to revamp the lighting in the Smyrna High School Theatre. I also worked one-on-one with a local lighting and sound company to stretch that money as far as possible. The result was a lighting award nomination from the most prestigious theatre company in the state, TPAC, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
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These are two resources I created for the Subject Learning platform when I did curriculum writing and instructional design for part of their cryptocurrency online course, January 2022.
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After visiting Hampton Court in 2017, I became interested in the history behind the six wives of Henry VIII. I wrote a historical fiction play that accurately recounts their struggles with his narcissism and corruption through the eyes of a fictional lady-in-waiting to the Queen. I wrote this before Six! I sure wish I had made it a musical!
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I designed and created this website in 2020 for Smyrna High School Theatre. The website keeps the community up to date on the SHS Theatre department and its courses and productions.
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Remember when Buzzfeed was a classic place to learn new things, get recommendations for travel, and just read run lists? I created this article for Buzzfeed in 2016 during my first summer in London.
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I directed Pride and Prejudice in 2017. As much as I love the play's period, I felt it might be fun to set it in the 1920s when folks pretended that rules and etiquette were out the window, but they were really as relevant--or irrelevant--as ever. This is the proposal I created for the executive director of the theatre.
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This video was created in Camtasia to instruct my colleagues regarding filming themselves for a virtual awards ceremony, April 2021. In 2020, thousands of educators found themselves in a very technologically advanced world where everything they had to do had a digital stamp on it. I constantly created videos and guides to help them navigate this unfamiliar territory.
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A playbill is a large document that usually consists of eight or more pages of text, graphics, and pictures. It is used to give legal acknowledgement to authors or arrangers of a work of (often musical) theatre. This is the playbill I built for a production of Addams Family for Rutherford County Schools, March 2020 (the production opened one week before the world shut down!!!!).
When I performed dramaturgy services for the production of Steel Magnolias at Murfreesboro Center for the Arts, I created an actor's packet with resources for the actors to motivate them to perfect their accents, understand their characters, and learn more about the background of the setting, characters, and plot of the production. I did the same for a production of Othello. These packets really help the actors to study their roles without doing extra (inconsistent) research on their own, 2019.
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I have adapted several novels and short stories for the stage. Work that is in the public domain can be adapted for the stage without paying royalties to an author. This can be beneficial to community theatres that may need a financial boost or theatre programs that are in their startup phase that do not have much money. These have all been performed in community theatres or at the high school level, 2017-2020.
The Gospel at Colonus is an unusual musical that is an adaptation of the Oedipus trilogy. A full dramaturgy casebook helps the director and actors with consistent research in the characters, author, settings, language, and subtle nuances in the script. This document is an example of a dramaturgy casebook. Caveat: This is one of the few resources on this page that was only used in an academic capacity and never a professional one, 2018.
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In addition to curriculum development, content writing, and instructional design, I also enjoy writing about unique local food and cocktail establishments. During the pandemic, people were keen on finding restaurants with outdoor dining, so I began this website to help folks to find places where they could safely dine outdoors.
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I have designed and maintain a variety of websites including Smokehouse Crackers, a snacks, sauces, and rubs company (via Wix) and a Resources and Knowledgebase Site for Compass Realty (via Google sites), a video and docs resource page for Addams Family the Musical for a local community theatre, and a variety of blogs and event sites.
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Thank you for taking a look at the various graphic design projects I've done!
I am an avid user of Canva for quick simple designs, and I prefer InDesign for more complicated or multi-page layouts.
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Social Media Management
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Videos for Social Media
Thank you so much for visiting!
I can't wait to hear from you!
Natalie Quinn, M.A.
256.702.1954