Writer, Director, Community Artist

Olive Pascha is a writer, director, and community artist working across film and theatre. Over the past twelve years, her practice has been shaped by work and study in the UK, India, Russia, Europe, and Lebanon. She is drawn to unanswered questions, to the spaces and silences often overlooked, and to moments that resist easy explanation.

Her creative language has developed not only through theatre and film but also through unexpected, non-traditional encounters. Alongside her artistic work, Olive has seven years’ experience as a part-time carer in a range of settings—a practice that continues to shape how she listens, notices, and creates. She is also completing a part-time master’s in philosophy, which offers a vital lens through which to keep questioning.

Olive is developing a new play about homecare in the UK, funded by Arts Council England and rooted in extensive interviews with carers and older adults. In September 2025, she will be in Athens as an international artist with Persona Theater Company, as part of a wider artistic investigation into how we meet one another—on stage and in life—using real-time performance as a generative creative constraint. Through this research, she explores how attention, care, contradiction, and the everyday shape who we are and how we relate.

Keen to connect with local actors and collaborators, Olive seeks to expand her understanding of performance. Her work is committed to European artistic exchange and to discovering new ways of being present together on stage, without defaulting to traditional notions of «performance».