Liv was a birthday party clown for a time but she doesn't want to talk about it and she can't believe she put that in her bio. She hails from Boston, MA and graduated from Bowdoin College in May 2017 with an interdisciplinary major in English and Theater and a Cinema Studies minor. She has studied with The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut and The Second City in Chicago. Olivia is an accomplished writer, having won national awards for her poetry, and a competitive speaker, continuously placing in speech tournaments with the National Forensics League and delivering her high school’s valedictory address. In 2015, Olivia won the Micoleau Family Fellowship for the Creative and Performing Arts and in 2017 she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Theater and Dance at Bowdoin. She founded a two-woman theater company, Liv & Mags, with her creative partner Maggie Seymour, in 2015.
A SAG-eligible and EMC actress, Olivia has been called “riotous” by Time Out New York and her comedic duo has been hailed as a “modern-day Lucy and Ethel” by StageBuddy. Her first two woman show with Maggie, 15 Villainous Fools, toured to five major US cities and got picked up for a New York City run at the People’s Improv Theater while she was still in her senior year at Bowdoin College. Since then, she and Maggie have developed two full-length two-woman shows—15 Villainous Fools and Dickie in the House—and received rave reviews from New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, DC Theatre Scene and Stagebuddy, to name a few. On screen, Olivia can also be found in the Starz hit TV show, Sweetbitter, though they make her look like a bald man in almost all of her scenes, so don’t worry if you don’t recognize her.
Most recently, Olivia worked at the Williamstown Theater Festival for the summer 2019 season. She performed in a variety of shows while in residence, and was selected to participate in several readings and workshops lead by Oscar-winner Kenneth Longeran, Kilroy-winner Mona Pirnot and Tony-winner William Finn. Jesse Tyler Ferguson also told her that she was incredible and she almost threw up. This fall, she appeared in her first playbill, working off-Broadway as a star dresser for MCC’s production of Theresa Rebeck’s Seared, a show that has since garnered several Lortel, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations.
In her daily life, Olivia is most likely spinning at Flywheel Sports, the greatest work out in the world, or complaining that her local Mr. Lime grocer doesn’t sell Banza mac and cheese.