Olivia Buntaine is an award-winning playwright and poet. She focuses on themes of consent, queerness, girlhood and power. Notable works include:

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Plays

• Surviving: A Love Story (2015)

  • Winner of the Ruth George Poetry Prize

  • Los Angeles Women's Theater Runner Up

• The Tragedy of Medusa (2018)

  • Selection for Son of Semele's Company Creation Festival

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Articles

• The Story of Cressida's Body, "Playing Shakespeare's Rebels and Tyrants" (forthcoming, 2021)

• Named, February 2021

• Prophet, Thou Sleep'st, 2021

• Prometheus 2020, Thou Sleep'st, 2020

• Cardboard Cities: What Social Emotional Arts Can Teach Us About Building Community, UCLArts & Healing, 2020

• Creating Art in a Chaotic World: Healing Arts with Homeless Youth, UCLArts & Healing, 2019

 

Other​​

• A Woman and Multitudes, Raincoat Mag, 2015

• On Hope, Disposable at the Wallis Annenberg, 2018

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View Writing Resume here.