UNSTUCK

Did you worry about stabbing your father in his sleep after watching the film MINORITY REPORT with Tom Cruise? Ever been afraid to impregnate your own mother with bathtub water?? Were you scared to use the word 'delectable' in a sentence after JonBenet Ramsey said it the night before she was murdered in the JonBenet Ramsey Lifetime Original Movie?

I'm gonna be real -- if so, you might have OCD. Like me! Hi, I'm Olivia Levine and I suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. We've all heard about the classic stuff-- the hand washing, the touching, the counting. But most of us haven't heard about other ways it can manifest. Like worrying about accidentally causing violent harm to a loved one, the fear that using a particular word might result in the death of your best friend. Killing people with your vagina germs! The list goes on! UNSTUCK uses standup and storytelling to explore the comedy, the tragedy and the beauty of a very misunderstood and under-represented disorder.

Olivia Levine (writer/performer) is a queer actor, comedian and writer based in Brooklyn. She received her B.A. in Theatre from Barnard College. Other training includes Uprights Citizens Brigade and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (London). Recent theatre credits include UNSTUCK (dir. Molly Rose Heller) at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SF Playhouse’s THE DAUGHTERS (dir. Jessica Holt) and the world premiere of HONORS STUDENTS at Wild Project (dir. Leta Tremblay), which received two NY Innovative Theatre Award nominations. Olivia's first short film, LET LIV, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023. She wrote and starred in the project, alongside Christine Taylor (ZOOLANDER, DODGEBALL) and Rosaline Elbay (RAMY, THE DIPLOMAT). Other film credits include TALULLAH opposite Allison Janney, and I HATE KIDS with Tituss Burgess and Tom Everett Scott. Olivia works at I.R.C. Productions with TV writer/actor Jordan Carlos (BLACK MIRROR, BROAD CITY, THE COLBERT REPORT). You can catch her every month at The Stonewall Inn, where she hosts a queer comedy show called STRAPPED. www.olivia-levine.com.

Molly Rose Heller (director) is a lesbian theatre artist based in New York City. Her recent directing credits include The Apostle Peter and His Lover John Also An Apostle (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Notes from the Basement (Corkscrew Festival, Watermill Center Residency, Center at West Park, Dixon Place), Lalabala Project (Watermill Center Residency, Performance Project at University Settlement Residency, Lucid Body House Salon, and the upcoming Kathmandu International Lalabala Theatre Festival), The Crucible (BEDLAM, SDCF Observership), Existential Questions of the 21st Century (Green Room 42), Olivia K and the Parkers Present Planet Joy (City Winery), Purple Reign: Sarah Hamaty in Concert (Green Room 42), The Dybbuk (upcoming), Faust 2.0 (Mabou Mines, asst. dir.), Convention (Irondale Center, asst. dir.), Cannibal Galaxy: a love story (New Ohio, asst. dir.), and Missing Gemini (Winner, Best Direction). Molly is the Senior Writer at UNSHUT, an immersive episodic experience blending theater, VR/AR, and game design. Molly was commissioned to write lyrics for the theme song of the award-winning indie web-series “Educated Fleas” and is the book-writer and lyricist for Plath. (FringeNYC, Columbia University). Her most recent play Hamster Medea was workshopped at the Alliance for Jewish Theatre’s TheatreMacher Lab 2022. Her poetry has been featured by Torn Out Theater, and she is a frequent contributor to Burrowing Artists’ Monologue Series. She is a 2022 Member of Directors Lab North, a 2019 Finalist for Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, an alum of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Program, a former Apprentice at the Berkshire Theatre Group, and a former member of the BAT Resident Company at the Flea Theater. In 2022, Molly was named to New York Jewish Week’s “36 to Watch” List, which honors remarkable Jewish innovators.

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