Olivia Knight is making her HGO debut as Intimacy Director for Il trovatore and La Boheme. Knight’s other engagements for the 2024-25 season include Una in Blackbird with Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. and the premiere of Synapse with The Octarine Accord. She has led movement, fight and intimacy workshops in the Houston community at various educational institutions as well as working as a teacher at both the college and high school levels. She was awarded the VCUarts Research Grant in 2021 for her work on The Penelopiad. Previous theatrical credits include Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Gregory in Romeo & Juliet with the Houston Shakespeare Festival (2024); Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and First Witch/Lady Macduff in Macbeth with the Houston Shakespeare Festival (2023); Ash in Wolf Play with Rec Room Arts (2023); #25 in The Wolves at Quintero Theatre (2023); Princess of France in Love’s Labour’s Lost with Studio 108 (2023); the title role of Rumpelstiltskin and Katherine/Boy in Henry V at the Wortham (2022); Sonia in Our Lady of 121st Street at Quintero Theatre (2021); and Olivia in Twelfth Night at Richmond Catholic Theatre (2020).