Olivia grew up in Columbia, Tennessee, known by some as “The Mule Capital of the World”, a small Southern town with a small-town charm. After graduating high school, she moved to Austin to attend the University of Texas where she earned 2 degrees, a BA in Theater & Dance and a BS in Radio-TV-Film.
She worked primarily as an actress and a part-time make-up artist on several short and feature films (Z: A Zombie Musical, GDMF, The Grift, etc.) in Austin, Los Angeles, New York, etc. She is a founding member of ‘The Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue,’ still based in Austin, TX and now performing worldwide.
She spent time in Moscow studying with the Moscow Art Theater before moving to New York where she earned her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School. Some of her favorite theatrical roles include INEZ in Sartre's No Exit, Juror #3 in 12 Angry Women, CONNIE in Snowangel- a hard-edged prostitute with a heart of gold, MARY, the maid - a brilliant, dissociative-disorder riddled, acrobatic maid in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.
She is also a co-founder & co-artistic director of Point To Where It Hurts Productions in NYC. Their production of No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre successfully played to sold-out audiences at Chinatown Soup, a unique art gallery that hosts resident artists as well as providing a performance space downstairs, perfect for setting the stage of what is necessary for No Exit, 'Hell'. Though she has since split the company is now developing a documentary on an Olympic Female Boxer.