Reviews of professor Natalie Blackman

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is an amazing professor who made me like acting again, but she does give an obsessive amount of outside class work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Natalie is a really great professor and I would highly recommend taking her class. She gives such great advice and you can see the improvements everyone in her class is making from everything she has us do. Her classes are always a safe space and she is such a caring person.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There's a lot of outside-of-class work, but I thought most of it was helpful. There's a lot of sitting around and doing nothing because she makes you watch other students rehearse their scenes/monologues, which can be helpful, but I think class time would be more useful spent being active. She taught us a great warm-up and gave great notes.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I thought that Natalie is a sweet human being but I didn't think she was a good professor. It felt as though she didn't always know what she was talking about when it came to monologues/scenes. There was also a ton of outside of class homework that was overall unnecessary and unhelpful to advance my acting abilities. I would avoid taking her class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you don't participate and do the work outside of class, you won't pass. The work hard, but the instructions/expectations weren't always clear. Every class started with a warm-up, which began with a "follow the leader" dancing thing, which everyone hated, but she refused to budge. Overall, a great class, but she didn't adapt to her students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a tough grader but awesome if you put in the work. Sometimes preoccupied with other factors outside of class.