Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer-performer and co-writer and star of Operation Mincemeat which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards, and which also saw her nominated for Best Actress in a Musical for originating the role of Ewen Montagu. She is currently originating the same role on Broadway which opened in March 2025 to glowing reviews, packed houses and four Tony award nominations including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Score of a Musical.
The show (which she co-created, co-wrote and co-composed as part of theatre company Spitlip) was originally commissioned by the New Diorama Theatre and first performed in 2019 (winning the Stage Debut award for Best Composer/Lyricist and the Off West End Award for Best Musical Production and Best Company Ensemble) before being revised through multiple runs at the Southwark Playhouse and the Riverside Studios. It opened at the Fortune Theatre in London’s West End in May 2023 and is the best reviewed show in West End history having received over 60 five-star reviews and won the prestigious Best New Musical Olivier award. The show is now in it’s third year on the West End and the original cast album (featuring Natasha in multiple roles) was produced by Grammy award-winning and Tony and Olivier award-nominated Steve Sidwell and was released by Sony Music on CD, vinyl and streaming. It was subsequently released in the US by Sony’s musical theatre label Sony Masterworks Broadway.
Outside of Operation Mincemeat, Natasha’s first scripted comedy series The Sink was created and written for BBC Sounds by Natasha, and she also starred in it alongside Alice Lowe, David Elms, Celeste Dring and Jason Forbes. The show received multiple five-star reviews, a nomination for Best Podcast/Online Audio at the Audio Drama Awards 2021 and was named one of the Top 20 Podcasts of the year by The Guardian.
Natasha’s television writing credits include the BAFTA award winning series Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and Amazing World of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventuretime’s Pendelton Ward, as well as projects currently in development with Comedy Central US and Two Brothers. Further performance credits include appearances on Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, The Now Show, Newsjack Unplugged, and Front Row on BBC Radio 4. Natasha is also one fifth of Kill the Beast with whom she has co-created, co-written and co-performed in multiple critically-acclaimed and award-winning projects including theatre shows The Boy Who Kicked Pigs; He Had Hairy Hands; Don’t Wake the Damp; and Director’s Cut and audio series Eglantine Whitechapel: Supernatural Detective and Who Exploded Vivian Stone?
