Nattalyee Randall
August 26, 2025
We have been thrilled to welcome Nattalyee Randall back to Springfield as the director of DREAMGIRLS! We are so proud of Nattalyee and her professional success! Get your tickets now at hcfta.org!
Meet Nattalyee Randall:
Nattalyee Randall currently resides in NYC but is originally from Springfield, IL. She attended Western Illinois University for Music and English Education. She is an activist, ultra marathoner, voice teacher, director, producer, writer, and actor.
Nattalyee has portrayed legendary voices like Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone in A Night with Janis Joplin, and brought down the house as Effie in Dreamgirls, Woman 1 in Songs for a New World, Jarene in The Color Purple, and the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She toured nationally with the acappella sensation Vocalosity and the tribute show R.E.S.P.E.C.T. honoring Aretha Franklin. She most recently played Becky in the musical Waitress at the Hangar Theatre.
You can catch her in the movie “The Ghost Who Walks” on Peacock TV. She just recently Associate Directed “Hot Wing King” at Hartford Stage and Assistant Directed “Sister Act” at Cape Fear Regional Theater. She directed and executive produced the award winning documentary “The Race Against Race” which world premiered at DOC NYC, the Trail Running Film Fest, Over the Rhine Film Festival, and also played on PBS. The film chronicles Nattalyee’s story of how she transformed “Running while Black” into an act of protest in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. She is currently the choir director of the YGB# Youth Ensemble. Insta/Twitter: @Nattalyee @NattalyeeVocalStudio4TY