Natasha Hodgson (born November 1986)[1] is an English actress, singer, writer, podcaster and artistic director.[2] She co-created and performed the musical Operation Mincemeat with the comedy troupe SpitLip.
Hodgson grew up in Croft, Cheshire and attended Croft Primary School.[6] At the age of 12, her first professional acting work was a role in an episode of the CITV sci-fi series Life Force,[7] after appearing in the directory for a child casting agency owned by the parent of her friend.[8] She later graduated from the University of Warwick, where she was involved in extra-curricular theatre.[9]
Hodgson co-founded Kill the Beast Theatre with David Cumming, Ollie Jones, Zoe Roberts, and Clem Garritty. The group originally met in university. Kill the Beast produced four stage productions, including The Boy Who Kicked Pigs[13] (2013), He Had Hairy Hands[14] (2014), Don't Wake The Damp[15](2016), and Director's Cut[16] (2019).
Operation Mincemeat
Kill the Beast members Hodgson, Roberts, and Cumming, in addition to Felix Hagan, co-founded the comedy group SpitLip in 2017.[17] The group collaboratively wrote and composed the musical Operation Mincemeat, which first premiered at the London Fringe New Diorama Theatre in 2019.[18]Operation Mincemeat also played in Southwark Playhouse and Riverside Studios. The show opened in the West End on 29 March 2023, and has been renewed there fourteen times.[19] The show opened on Broadway March 20, 2025,[20] and in May 2025 was nominated for four Tony Awards, with three of these afforded to Hodgson and her SpitLip colleagues, the first time anyone has had their first three Tony nominations all come at once.[citation needed]
Audio Drama
Hodgson created and starred in the audio drama The Sink: A Sleep Aid, which was released by BBC Sounds. The Sink was nominated for the "Best Podcast/Online Audio" Audio Drama Award in 2021, and was listed as a "Top 20 Podcast of 2020" by The Guardian.[21] She also co-wrote the Kill the Beast production "Eglantine Whitechapel: Supernatural Detective" and the Kill the Beast/Fremantle production "Who Exploded Viven Stone?",[22] and voiced several characters in three episodes of Doctor Who Redacted for BBC Sounds.[23][24][25]
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