Olivia Munk

Olivia is a theatre director educated at Harvard and Oxford. She is Artistic Director of Part of the Main Productions, a Pleasance London Associate Company and winner of the VAULT Festival Excellence in Accessibility Award.

Her forthcoming projects include Biosphere for the Royal and Derngate GenFest in November 2025.

Theatre work as Assistant/Associate Director includes The Lightest Element (Hampstead Theatre); Marie Curie: A New Musical (Charing Cross); Gentlemen (Arcola); The Arc: A Trilogy of Jewish New Plays and Tumulus (Soho Theatre); Ride (Leicester Curve/Charing Cross/Southwark Playhouse); and The Blue Room (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). Olivia was Creative Team Assistant on Heathers (The Other Palace/Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Directing Intern for Tony Award-winning Director Diane Paulus on Waitress (American Repertory Theatre).

Theatre work as Director includes The Welkin (Rose Bruford); Guys & Dolls (Mountview); Midnight Tattoos (Drayton Arms); The Tinker (VAULT Festival); Biosphere (Pleasance); Green and Pleasant Land (Arcola); Bloody Mary: Live! (VAULT Festival, EdFringe, NYC & UK tour); and Beg for Me (Mountview/Pleasance/ Camden People’s Theatre).

Olivia’s training includes Toronto's Directors Lab North, the North Wall’s Catalyst residency for new writing, the European Theatre Convention’s Academy at Festival d’Avignon, and an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant to explore artistic leadership and creative access. She was long listed for the JMK Award (2022) and shortlisted for VAULT Five (2022). Olivia is co-curator of The Miniaturists, London's longest-running short play night, and also works as an Audio Describer. Originally from New York City, Olivia is the recipient of a Global Talent Visa.

As a producer, 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 nominated for 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.

Olivia's website is to be found at https://oliviamunk.com/

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