Natasha Tripney is a writer, editor and critic based in London and Belgrade. She was educated at King's College, London and the University of Warwick. She is the international editor for The Stage, the newspaper of the UK theatre industry, and editor-in-chief of SEEstage.org, an English language platform for theatre criticism in southeast Europe. She also writes the weekly European theatre newsletter, Café Europa. Previously, between 2015 and 2022, she was the lead critic and reviews editor for The Stage. She continues to lead The Stage's Edinburgh Fringe review team. In 2011, she co-founded Exeunt, an online portal for independent and experimental theatre criticism, which she edited until 2016. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and to BBC Culture, and has written for the Evening Standard, New York Times, Index on Censorship, Tortoise and Kosovo 2.0.