Latinx Writer/Director. Published personal essayist in Refinery 29, Real Simple Magazine, and Dame Magazine. Won the audience award at Holly Shorts for Canary Suicides (official selection SXSW and Cleveland International Film Festival.) On the writing team of BOO: Earth Division for DreamWorks Animation Television. National Hispanic Media Coalition’s (NHMC) Series Script Writer’s Program Fellow. 2020 Disruptor’s Fellow. She is currently working on her memoir, Ghosting My Death Doula, a series of personal essays about having cancer in your thirties.

Writer and filmmaker, Natalia Provatas, is a first generation Los Angeles native of Puerto Rican and Greek descent. In 2017, her personal essay "What It’s Really Like Inside the Elite Conference for Health Bros” for Refinery 29 was voted one of Apple News’ “Weekly Must Reads.” Additional published work can be found in Real Simple Magazine, Dame Magazine, Creator Magazine, and The Gloss. She was project manager and copy editor for On the Inside, the largest art collection of currently incarcerated LGBTQ+ prisoners that opened at Abron's Art Center in NYC in 2016 and at The Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles in 2019. Natalia co-directed/co-wrote the dark comedy short film Canary Suicides, which won the "Audience Award" at Holly Shorts, and was an official selection at both SXSW and Cleveland International Film Festival. She also directed and co-wrote the comedy web series Lazy Actress. Previously, Natalia was a production and editorial coordinator for the DreamWorks Animation features, The Croods, Me and My Shadow and Monkeys of Mumbai, respectively. She also worked on the writing team of BOO: Earth Division for DreamWorks Animation Television. In 2018, she was selected as 1 of 10 fellows for the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s (NHMC) Series Scriptwriter’s Program. She is a Woman’s Center for Creative Work 2020 Grant Recipient. Currently, she is a fellow in the 2020 Disruptor’s Fellowship facilitated by Joey Solloway’s 5050by2020 and The Center of Cultural Power. Growing up, Natalia was drawn to writing as a way to share her journey in trying to fit into the world at large as a mixed-race American. She also writes about sex, the body, female identity, and surviving breast cancer from a multi-culture lens. She currently resides in Silverlake with her fluffy dog, Norman. Both dance for treats.