Natalie Arle-Toyne is an actor and writer. She has her MA Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and studied screenwriting at NFTS Scotland.

Theatre credits include: Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti, Arabian Nights, Rhinoceros (CATS Ensemble Award) (Lyceum), The Lost Lending Library (Punch Drunk/Imaginate), Eddie and the Slumber Sisters (NTS), Company, Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Insideout Productions), Hairspray (Aberystwyth Arts Centre).

TV/Film Credits: Only You (BAFTA-nominated feature), Fail (Comedy Unit), BBC’s River City, Hijack (Apple/60 Forty Films).

As a writer, Natalie’s short film script Make Me A King about a Jewish drag king won the Pears Short Film Fund 2021 with UKJF, as well as Best Script at ImageNation Montreal. She is currently penning the feature based on her award-winning short for Unleyek Ltd. Her original historical thriller TV series, Queen of Magic, won best pitch at Inside Pictures with MGM and Caviar TV in Jan 2023. Natalie is one of half of the writing team for Scottish Opera’s new musical for young people for 2024 and is developing two of her optioned TV series.

She is delighted to be back with NTS as part of this thrilling new adaptation of Dracula.