Olivia is a French-Australian playwright and screenwriter, and currently the University of Iowa Silver Postgraduate Writing Fellow. In Spring 2024, her play Iris will be developed at the Cygnet Theatre in San Diego. She is a finalist for the ABC Signature Playwrights Initiative.

Select other plays include The Arrogance (Production: Upcoming, Sydney Australia, 2024; Iowa New Play Festival 2023, director Natalie Villamonte Zito; 2024 O’Neill Semi-Finalist; 2021 Griffin Award Shortlist), Three to Five Days (Production: University of Iowa, 2021, director: Natalie Villamonte Zito), Heart & Soul Yoga Studio Beirut (2020 DVRF Award Finalist; 2019 Griffin Award Shortlist; 2018 Corkscrew Theater Festival), Willoughby Road (SPACE on Ryder Farm 2019 Creative Residency), We Are the Wild-Dreaming Ancestors (SoftFocus Developmental Workshop 2019), Where’s the Exit? (Sydney Theatre Young Playwrights Award), and A Thank You Left Unsaid (Production: Old Fitzroy, 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival).

Her personal essays and writing have been published in Marie Claire, LennyLetter, Playbill magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and Sunday Life magazine. MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop (2023) Contact: oliviaclementfinch@gmail.com

Photo selects: 2023 production of The Arrogance, directed by Natalie Villamonte Zito; 2021 production of Three to Five Days, directed by Natalie Villamonte Zito; 2019 staged reading of Heart & Soul Yoga Studio Beirut, directed by Skye Kowaleski