Natalie Baudy studied Theatre Studies and Musicology in Mainz, Paris and Berlin, as well as Dramaturgy at the August Everding Theatre Academy in Munich. After graduating, she worked as a freelance dramaturge and author, including at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, the Staatstheater Augsburg and the Stadttheater Ingolstadt. In 2019 she was awarded the Chemnitz Theatre Prize for Young Playwriting for her play “Rauschen. Oder: Wenn du nicht existierst, geh mir bitte aus dem Licht. Danke.” (Buzzing. Or: If You Don’t Exist, Please Get Out of My Light. Thank You). In 2021 she was awarded a scholarship in the Hans-Gratzer Programme at the Schauspielhaus Wien. In 2023 she received a residency in the Drama Lab of Wiener Wortstätten with her text “fairycoin”, a fairy-tale, episodic play about cryptocurrency, where the piece was selected for production at Theater Kosmos Bregenz. She has collaborated closely with director David Moser, with whom she regularly develops and stages theatre projects. Her work is driven by an interest in pop-cultural aesthetics, digital phenomena and feminist perspectives. Since the 2024/25 season, she has been part of the team of artistic directors at the Schauspiel Erlangen.
Selected play: under the influence oder: die rückkehr der bakchen [under the influence or: the return of the bacchae], 2025
Synopsis: Three women from three generations find themselves drawn together on the seventh floor of an apartment block when mysterious plagues begin to fall into their courtyard. Cut off from the outside world, Ems, Anja and Liselotte drink and share memories of intoxication, relationships and family. They gradually recognise alcohol as a coping mechanism for patriarchal structures. As the goddess Dionysa, exhausted by eternal excess, clears away the plagues and the alcohol runs out, the women make a radical decision.
MEDUSA relevance: Combining myth, intimacy, comedy and contemporary experience, the play addresses dependency, intergenerational solidarity and the search for forms of ecstasy beyond patriarchal structures. These concerns travel readily across national contexts, while the transformation of the Bacchae tradition creates strong possibilities for staging and intercultural interpretation.