Olivia Sawatzki

Olivia Sawatzki

Olivia Sawatzki is a Los Angeles-based playwright. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she is an alumna of The Ohio State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre in 2020. She won the 2019 Gerald R. Black Prize for Recognition of Excellence in Playwriting. Her plays have been produced in Ohio and California. Most recently, her play being alive (& other big jokes) sold-out its West...
Olivia Sawatzki is a Los Angeles-based playwright. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, she is an alumna of The Ohio State University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre in 2020. She won the 2019 Gerald R. Black Prize for Recognition of Excellence in Playwriting. Her plays have been produced in Ohio and California. Most recently, her play being alive (& other big jokes) sold-out its West Coast Premiere run in Los Angeles. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Email her: oliviasawatzki@outlook.com

Plays

  • LZRDGRL by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, movement/physical, satire
    A young woman must marry her increasingly unstable boyfriend before she turns 29, or be euthanized.
  • MEN OF MIGHT by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, satire, tragedy
    After a member is convicted of committing violent sexual assault, a popular fraternity enters a mandated partnership with the campus women's center to avoid dissolution.
  • Living Primates by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: mental illness, Depression + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, immersive, tragedy
    Keyword: mental illness, Depression, addiction, family
    A college student on the brink of a mental health crisis destroys her personal relationships, while her bedroom slowly turns into Madagascar.
  • Thelma & Louise Make It To Mexico (and other cultural revisions) by Olivia Sawatzki
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, parody/spoof, political, satire
    An anthology comedy about the intertextuality of fictional doomed women.
  • Being Alive & Other Big Jokes by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: sexual violence, sexual assault + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political, satire
    Keyword: sexual violence, sexual assault, rape, LGBTQ, dark comedy, feminist, young adult
    A group of narcissistic college friends deal with their existential dread by being sort of shitty to each other.
  • BLEED ME DRY by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    A dialysis patient gets adopted by an erratic food-blogger acquaintance in this 10-minute piece about unlikely friendship, and tenderness, and Fleetwood Mac, and the second LEGO movie? What?
  • House Show by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, awkward romance + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: LGBTQ, awkward romance, music
    dude did you hear who's opening for Bitchin’ Rick & the Elastic Itchy Boys tonight? i've like never even heard of them omg. it's like a college band i think. yeah the main girl? i've heard she's like full lesbian now.
  • MOONSHINE KILLS CRIPPLES BLINDS by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    A grocery store cashier has a bizarre encounter with a one-eyed, cheese-eating man. God, it sucks to be a woman in the service industry.
  • for sale, baby shoes by Olivia Sawatzki
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: adaptation, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: grief, death + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: grief, death, marriage
    A scavenged play in the tradition of Charles Mee. Pulled from Craigslist ads and recipes and internet chatrooms is the story of Beatrice and Chuck. Let my son know I love him.