Nathaniel Rosenthalis  

is a singer, actor, poet and a recipient of fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis, the Yiddish Book Center, and Creatives Rebuild New York. 

A member of Actors Equity Association, he has performed in musical theater Off-Broadway, at 54 Below, and Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. He has a passion for originating roles in new musical theater works that cross musical genres and subvert narrative expectations. 

His first book of poetry, I Won't Begin Again, won a national prize, and his second and third books of poetry, The Leniad and Works and Days, were published by a U.K. avant-garde publishing house. His work has been blurbed and supported by winners of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Upcoming projects include a book of poetry that remixes the Orpheus and Eurydice myth by reinterpreting overlooked passages of Ovid's Metamorphoses, recasting Orpheus as a bisexual rock musician and Eurydice as an essayist who leaves behind morning pages and travel pieces (read an excerpt here in the Oxford Review of Books) and a one-man music show about friendship that cuts through electronica, jazz, country, R&B, and pop, covering material recorded by artists from Peter Gabriel and Rascal Flatts to Vanessa Carlton and Lalah Hathaway. 

He teaches the psychology of creativity with a writing focus at New York University and occasionally teaches poetry for the M.F.A. Program at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a T.S. Eliot Scholar and in residence as a Senior Fellow in Poetry.

He lives in Brooklyn and can be reached at nrosenthalis(at)gm.slc.edu