Natalie Margaret Houle

Biography

Nat is an audio engineer and sound designer born and raised in the Hudson Valley of New York. She graduated from SUNY New Paltz in 2021 with a BA in Theatre Arts: Design and Technology with a minor in Music. She designed and composed for Lauren Bone Noble's one-woman show FURY! at the Denizen Theatre as well as many mainstage productions at New Paltz such as She Kills Monsters, Romeo and Juliet, Cadillac Crew, and The Killing Fields. At New Paltz, she studied composition independently with Dr. Phyllis Chen. As an assistant sound designer, she had the opportunity to work regionally at Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre.

In the world of broadcast, she has been a NABET-CWA union member for five years primarily working on Good Morning America. For the 2020 and 2021 New Year's Eve broadcasts, she got to join the wireless audio and intercom team working in Times Square.

She is currently enrolled the Sound Design MFA program at the University of California, Irvine.

Outside of sound and composition, she enjoys a Chinese tea practice, yoga, transcendental meditation, and hiking.