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Represented by Gabrielle Dawes
Olivia Munk was born and raised in Queens, NYC. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she is Artistic Director of Part of the Main Productions, a 2022-2024 Pleasance London Associate Company and winner of VAULT Festival’s Excellence in Accessibility Award.
Directing credits include BIOSPHERE (Pleasance, Royal & Derngate); Midnight Tattoos (Drayton Arms); The Tinker (VAULT Festival); Beg For Me (Mountview Catalyst Festival, Pleasance, Camden People's Theatre); and Bloody Mary: Live! (UK Tour, EdFringe, VAULT Festival, Coventry City of Culture, various NYC).
Drama school directing projects include The Maladies and The Welkin (Rose Bruford American Theatre Arts BA); Guys & Dolls (Mountview Musical Theatre BA). Olivia also works as an External Examiner for Italia Conti and delivers workshops at schools such as Trinity Laban, Mountview, and BRIT School.
Associate, assisting, script supervision and directing intern credits include Stage Kiss and The Lightest Element (Hampstead Theatre); Gentlemen (Arcola); Marie Curie (Charing Cross Theatre); Ride (Charing Cross Theatre, Leicester Curve, and Southwark Playhouse); The Coven (Short film); The Blue Room (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Tumulus and The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays (Soho Theatre); Heathers (The Other Palace & Theatre Royal Haymarket); and Waitress (American Repertory Theatre).
In 2022, Olivia was longlisted for the JMK Award and shortlisted for VAULT Five. She has been funded by Arts Council England's 'Developing Your Creative Practice' programme to develop her creative access practice and artistic leadership. In 2021, Olivia was selected to attend the European Theatre Convention's Theatre Academy at Festival d'Avignon in France. She was a member of Fuel Theatre and the Greater London Authority's 'Creative Freelancers: Shaping London's Recovery' 2021 cohort, and was completed Clore Leadership's Emerging Leaders Course in 2023. In 2023 Olivia joined playwright Isabel Dixon to become Co-Curator of The Miniaturists, London's longest-running short play night. Olivia completed Catalyst, the North Wall’s new writing residency in Oxford, and participated in Directors Lab North in Toronto. She is a member of the North Wall’s ArtsLab Network.
Olivia has produced work with the Barbican, Soho Theatre, The Pleasance, Camden People's Theatre, The Park, Wandsworth Arts Fringe, Theatre503, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, VAULT Festival, Waltham Forest Council and Coventry City of Culture. Her work has been both nominated for and won Off West End Awards and shortlisted for the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence. She was a Senior Producer at Zoo Co, a theatre charity in Croydon championing deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and audiences, securing the company NPO status in 2022.