Olivia Bievenue is a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, where she studies early modern English drama and performance. She is especially interested in how theater practitioners translate and stage early modern drama for a contemporary audience. To explore this interest, Olivia co-founded a theater company in Santa Barbara and currently serves as the company’s artistic director. Olivia has directed numerous community productions, including Rossum’s Universal Robots, Antigone, The Spanish Tragedy, The Tempest, King Lear, and Julius Caesar.