Olivia Clement is a French-Australian playwright, screenwriter, and writer. She was the University of Iowa’s 2023-24 Silver Postgraduate Writing Fellow. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where she teaches Playwriting, Theatre History, and Intro to Theatre. 

Clement's work is focused on the interiority of women and their experiences. Her play The Arrogance recently had its world premiere at KXT on Broadway in Sydney, Australia (July, 2024). Critics called the production "heartbreaking," "sensitively rendered", and "beautiful." Other select plays include Iris (Dee Silver MD Commission, Cygnet Theatre Public Staged Reading), Three to Five Days (Production: University of Iowa, 2021, director: Natalie Villamonte Zito), Heart & Soul Yoga Studio Beirut (2020 DVRF Award Finalist; 2019 Griffin Award Shortlist; 2018 Corkscrew Theater Festival Staged Reading), and Willoughby Road (SPACE on Ryder Farm 2019 Creative Residency), We Are the Wild-Dreaming Ancestors (SoftFocus Developmental Workshop 2019), Where’s the Exit? (Sydney Theatre Young Playwrights Award), and A Thank You Left Unsaid (Production: Old Fitzroy, 2014 Sydney Fringe Festival). Her screenplay Spielrein received development with Gran Via productions, and she was a 2024 finalist for the ABC Signature Playwrights Initiative.

Her personal essays and writing have been published in Marie Claire, LennyLetter, Playbill magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald, and Sunday Life magazine. MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop (2023) Contact: oliviaclementfinch@gmail.com

Photo selects: 2023 production of The Arrogance, credit: Miranda Meyer; 2019 staged reading of Heart & Soul Yoga Studio Beirut, credit: Marc J Franklin; 2024 staged reading of Iris, credit: Karli Cadel; 2021 production of Three to Five Days, credit: Natalie Villamonte Zito; 2024 staged reading of Iris, credit: Ethan McLaughlin.