Olivia is a writer-director whose debut feature First Match (2018), a Netflix Original, premiered at SXSW where it won the Audience Award & theLUNA Gamechanger Award. A Sundance Labs alum, she has received support from the Sundance Institute, HBO, and Tribeca Film Institute. Her short films have screened internationally, including at New York Film Festival. She holds a BA from Vassar and an MFA from Columbia University. She directed Colm Meaney in her latest film Remarkably Bright Creatures.
In this podcast, Gemma Creagh talks to Olivia Newman, the director of Where the Crawdads Sing, which is adapted from the best-selling novel by Delia Owens and produced by Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter.