OLIVIANA MARIE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA

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Oliviana Marie is a rising sophomore studying Composition at USC’s Thornton School of Music. She has written 4 award winning musicals. The most recent, CORONA’S CABARET: An Act of Destruction (book/ music/ lyrics) where Oliviana portrayed the Coronavirus as a nightclub singer debuting her “act ” was the winner of PLAYBILL’S Virtual Theatre Festival. During her freshman year Oliviana scored two short films (AFI and Concordia University), participated in Salastina’s Sounds Promising program (mentored by Derrick Skye) Pasadena Chorale’s Listening to the Future (mentored by Saunder Choi) The Los Angeles Music Center's Swing Out (Mentored by Ron Wilkins), was the associate MD for a USC student run production of The Addams Family, and assisted director Alberto Arvelo and conductor Gustavo Dudamel (writing all the staging into the orchestral score) for the LA Phil/ Deaf West production of Fidelio. She plays piano and trumpet and as a vocalist Oliviana was this year’s first place winner of The Glenn Miller Big Band Scholarship Award.