https://oliviamatthewswrites.com/news daily 0.75 2025-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/bc9a6912-138f-4520-9eac-5ad772d7d94a/Eugene+O%27Neill+NPC+2025+Olivia+Matthews.jpg Press & Projects - April 2025 The Nativity Starring Keisha Taylor was named a finalist for this year’s National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center. You can see my play listed with other exciting finalists here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/831fc855-2249-44d5-8499-c5680c68e741/Playwrights+GPTC+25.png Press & Projects - March 2025 My play The Nativity Starring Keisha Taylor will be featured at the 2025 Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Festival May 25th to May 31st. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/46d05e58-bd68-4c7c-b04a-a3c52fa56cf3/Onward-Logo-Horiz-RGB.jpg Press & Projects - August 2024 My new play The Nativity Starring Keisha Taylor was presented as a reading at Onward Theatre in Atlanta, Georga. The recording can now be seen on my YouTube account where I hope to post more of my work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/f6372d63-a093-4238-8320-e4bdc90fbba3/Women+and+Theatre+Program.jpeg Press & Projects - My play Absentia received the 2020 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award by Women & Theatre Program. Learn more about the award and the play here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/1593908482142-107B1836FDQ8TGEEJ9ZK/IMG_9245.JPG Press & Projects - An interview where I talk about Florida and Fox Day with Nick D’Alessandro on his Best of Orlando nominated podcast Wait Five Minutes: A Floridian Podcast. Artwork by Lauren Nix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/d41c8d2e-8f63-4715-9d32-9c39eb7da964/order+of+the+good+death+2.jpeg Press & Projects - Earlier this year I was named a Good Death Fellow by The Order of the Good Death. As a grant recipient, I will be developing an audio presentation of my Death Positive play Here Lies Vivienne Greene. Learn about the fellowship and the organization here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/acb5ed02-2315-4208-8b2f-48c5f0ad3d3b/Tantrum+East+25-26.png Press & Projects - May 2025 Tantrum East, an NYC-based theatre company founded by Ohio University alums, is raising money for their next season featuring a reading of my play The Nativity Starring Keisha Taylor. To donate, click here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/285b1016-4c9d-463c-988c-41b92762a89d/OliviaMatthewsPlaywright.jpg Press & Projects My play Absentia was recently recognized by The Wayward Artist as a Panel Favorite for Wayward Voices 2022! Learn more here. https://oliviamatthewswrites.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-08-06 https://oliviamatthewswrites.com/home daily 0.75 2022-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/1610768546089-S174Z7HDAMTT129DMY6Z/F3D11723-A5CC-4406-9D4F-233A2EAF93BC.jpg Home - OLIVIA MATTHEWS is a writer from Central Florida. Her ten-minute play Home Going was produced by Playwrights’ Round Table in Orlando and is published in The Best 10 Minutes Plays of 2015 by Smith and Kraus. Her other short plays have been seen in Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Vancouver, and New York City. Her full-length play Absentia received the 2020 Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Award. That same year she participated in the Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellowship where she developed an original children’s television pilot entitled Cate and Halle. In 2022, she was named a fellow of The Order of the Good Death, receiving a grant to develop and give an audio presentation of her play Here Lies Vivienne Greene. Olivia has a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Rollins College and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Ohio University. Her work often explores family dynamics, the complexities of young women a nd teens, and the oddities and magic of The South. When she isn’t writing, Olivia can be found listening to the podcast You’re Wrong About, raving about Dua Lipa’s latest album, or scouring the internet for yet another pair of hoop earrings. If you ever catch her smiling to herself, she’s probably thinking about vegan Cuban picadillo. Read her work here. Photo Credit: Hershlay Raymond https://oliviamatthewswrites.com/television daily 0.75 2025-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f00d950c317b372978ad5e0/dfdd9db2-e603-4459-b41c-6bf85b4be38f/IMG_1354.jpg Television A gratuitous baby pic of me. 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