Olivia Berkson

Biography

Olivia is a multifaceted artist with experience across a broad range of media, with a skill set that includes writing, dramaturgy, composing and performing. She has worked on entertainment properties for mass media, broadway style composition, and pop/rock music. Her experience includes writer’s rooms, devised performance pieces and mainstream productions. She thrives in environments which require innovation or elevating the contributions of others. She is a multi-instrumentalist, actor, singer, dancer, composer and arranger.

Her work focuses on themes of the feminine experience, the feelings we can't always find the words for and our relationships with others and the world. She uses vocal arrangements as part of the orchestrations of songs and has been described as having "a wall of sound" of voices and instruments.

Recent work includes Wilderness! (SheNYC Summer Theatre Festival) *Winner Best Ensemble and Best Director, buried (Circle in the Square Emerging Writer’s Residency), Coming to a Theatre Near You (54 Below), Hundred Acre Park (CannonballFest Philadelphia Fringe) *Fringie Winner Best Children’s Show, and Waiting: A New Song Cycle (The Laurie Beechman Theatre) and the album Introducing: Berkson and Malina.

Olivia is Co Founder and Creative Director of Berkson Productions, a musical production company that puts up work performed and written by the new generation of artists.

Her personal music can be found on Spotify, with both originals and covers!