Olivia O’Brien
OLIVIA O'BRIEN is a co–creator of By Jane’s Hand and co-found of Seldom Theatre Collective. She is an actor, singer, instrumentalist, puppeteer, and stilt walker. A VCASS VCE student in 2013 they later graduated from the University of Melbourne with honours in voice and has since pursued further education and a career in a diverse range of performance practices. Olivia has studied film and television with NIDA and has performed internationally at the United Nations in Geneva and New York City and in Central Park and Lincoln Center, singing alongside Sister Sledge and Ricky Kej. This is Olivia’s first creative writing project with her mother Emma, and she has enjoyed the process of delving deeper into the words, music, and world of Jane Austen through a feminist lens.