Director, devisor, writer, actor, and scholar; Assistant Professor of Theatre, Middlebury College; Co-Producing Artistic Director, The Dogteam Theatre Project, Artistic Director Emerita, Milagro.
Looking forward to directing her translation of La Viuda by María Irene Fornés for the Dogteam Theatre Project in July '24 at the Atlantic Theatre Stage 2. . Recent directorial projects include Marisela Treviño Orta's eco-drama Somewhere at Middlebury Burning Patience for the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, a reading of Flowers of Hawaii by Lee Cataluna at the Chautauqua Theatre Company; the US premier of Como Agua para Chocolate at Gala Hispanic Theatre, and Tricks to Inherit, her translation/adaptation of Astucias por herder un sobrino a un tío by Fermín de Reygadas (1789) at UO. She was directing the premier of Policarpa by Diana Burbano at Franklin & Marshall College when the pandemic shut us down. Most recent dramaturgy: Through the Eyes of Holly Germaine by Y York, The Home Planet by Theresa May, and Oye Oyá by Rebecca Martinez. Her research centers on Latina/e/o/x theatre of the US.
Publications include a critical introduction for Dreamscape by Rickerby Hinds in Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater, “(Afro)Latinx Theatre: Embodiment and Articulation,” published in Label Me Latina/o. She is co-editor with Noe Montez of The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance (the image on the cover is from the rehearsals for Diana Burbano's Policarpa at F&M).
A former member of the TCG Board, Olga currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons, a collaborative initiative with HowlRound Theatre Commons. Among her commitments to the LTC, she serves the Fornés Institute. AEA, SAG-AFTRA & SDC.
