Nathaniel Rosenthalis teaches the psychology of creativity with a writing focus at NYU.  

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

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 and subvert narrative expectations.

He is a recipient of fellowships from Washington University in St. Louis, the Yiddish Book Center, and Creatives Rebuild New York and has been an instructor at Washington University in St. Louis, Fordham at Lincoln Center, and Columbia University.

He received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a T.S. Eliot Scholar and in residence as a Senior Fellow in Poetry. 

Publications

• I Won't Begin Again (debut volume of poetry) By Burnside Review Press (Apr 01 2023)