Olivia Rose Barresi is an actor, writer, and producer originally from the Tri-State area. She earned her B.F.A. in Theatre Arts at Boston University’s C.F.A. School of Theatre, concentrating in acting and dramaturgy, and her MA in Acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). She is both a U.S. and E.U. citizen (her paternal grandparents hailing from Sicily).
Recent on-screen credits include Hermes in Ran Xia’s Prometheus Bound (2021), the multimedia techno-horror piece Socially Unacceptable (2019), and a host of other genre projects. Her recent performance work in theatre has centered around the development of new plays and the renewing of classical ones; frequent collaborators include currently-commissioned Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival director Emma Rosa Went, and Public Theater Emerging Writers Group playwright Else Went. Olivia is a frequent collaborator at the Mercury Store in New York City, and has been involved in their Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Directing Labs. She has also created and acted in the multimedia performance piece The Same Shirt Show, the second version of which was awarded a Drama League First Stage Residency. She has lent her voice to a range of projects as a VO artist, be they commercial, industrial, dubbing, or otherwise - but her favorite work has been in character-driven video games, most recently in the Triple A title Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong for Big Bad Wolf Studios. As a producer, she has founded the independent film production company Cute Lil’ Risk and inaugurated it with Mine, bringing together her twinned lifelong fascinations with both horror and women in film.
Other recent collaborators include renowned feminist playwright Carolyn Gage and counterclaim on her Female Nude Seated, industry veterans Sally Struthers, Kim Coles, and Joyce Reehling in the Judson Theatre Company production of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Dreamapp.io on their most recent TikTok voice.
Please take a look at the Links page on this site for more information on recent and frequent collaborators.
