Olivia is a French-Australian playwright and screenwriter. She is currently the University of Iowa Silver Postgraduate Writing Fellow, where she is working on a new play commission.

Select plays include The Arrogance (Production: Upcoming, Sydney Australia, 2024; Iowa New Play Festival 2023, director Natalie Villamonte Zito; 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