Olivia is a performance artist, educator and dramaturg. Her work spans various fields of practice ranging across theatre, dance, education and community-based work. She has a particular interest in facilitating and creating interdisciplinary work that is devised and movement-based. More recently, she has been exploring the transmedia possibilities of posthuman performance and working with more-than-human matter.
She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2022 with an M(Litt) in Theatre and Performance Practices, where she developed and performed her most recent work, The Magdalene (2024) which premiered in Glasgow. Some of her dramaturgical credits include Edith Podesta’s BITCH: The Origin of the Female Species (2016), Dark Matter Theatrics’ Micromanage.Overwork.Exasperate. (2016), Centre 42’s Vault: Becoming Mother (2017) and Wandering Women (2021), working with Nidya Shanthini Manokara and Nora Samosir.
Her performance work dovetails with her passion for education, in particular, working with young people both in Singapore and Glasgow. She has designed and facilitated various programmes that use creative pedagogies to help young people develop self-confidence and use their gifts and talents to make the world a more hopeful and loving place to live in.