During the 2025-26 season at HGO, Olivia Knight serves as the Fight/Intimacy Director for Porgy and Bess, Fight and Intimacy Director for the Butler Studio Showcase, Intimacy Director for Silent Night, and Fight Director for Hansel and Gretel. Previously for HGO, Olivia Knight served as Intimacy Director for Il trovatore (2024) and La bohème (2025). Engagements during the 2024-25 season included Una in Blackbird with Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. and the premiere of Synapse with The Octarine Accord. Knight has led movement, fight, and intimacy workshops at various Houston educational institutions and taught 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 and 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).
Intimacy Director:
BUTLER HGO STUDIO SHOWCASE 2024-25
IL TROVATORE 2024-25