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. His most recent stage appearance was at a Green Room 42 cabaret that he produced for National Friendship Day.

His first book of poetry, I Won't Begin Again, won a national prize in the United States, and his second and third books of poetry, The Leniad and Works and Days, were published by the U.K. avant-garde publishing house Broken Sleep Books. 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.

He is an adjunct instructor who 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.