Olivia Raine Atwood is a comedienne, matchmaker, writer & fitness instructor who splits her time between Los Angeles and the Los Angeles of the East (New York). Olivia has been called “riotous” by Time Out New York and her comedic duo has been hailed as a “modern-day Lucy and Ethel” by StageBuddy. Known for her “terrific” and “delightful physical storytelling,” (Fringe Review 2024), Olivia would “make coffee nervous”…which is the most accurate description of herself she has ever read (Mumble UK).
Her matchmaking company has been featured on NPR, WNYC and Elite Daily, among others, and won the 10k Rookie of the Year prize at the IKON Start-Up Awards. She has developed several full-length shows that have received rave reviews from New York Magazine, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, DC Theatre Scene, Vulture, Stagebuddy, Fringe Review and The Reviews Hub. She made her Off-Broadway debut in July 2023 with Liv, LIVE at the SoHo Playhouse. In December she returned to SoHo with UNDERPREPARED & OVERHYDRATED.
In 2024, Liv toured FAKING IT across the globe, from Hollywood to Denver to NYC to Edinburgh Fringe to London. She scooped a nomination for the HOLLYWOOD STAGECRAFTS SELECT AWARD at Hollywood Fringe 2024; she won BEST SOLO SHOW from the What the Fringe Podcast; at Edinburgh Fringe, she received exclusively 5, 4.5 and 4 star reviews. She was also named a Pick-Of-The-Fringe winner from Greenwich Theatre, and her show transferred Off-West-End in October.
In 2025, she and new co-producer Rob Howard (The Barrow Group) will be taking the show on a national tour before heading abroad again.
When not performing, writing or matchmaking, Liv is teaching fitness to the already fit people of Los Angeles an arguably absurd amount of hours. If you're wondering where she is, she's probably lost. Also, she doesn’t have a pug. She is, in fact, a cat person. The pug just photographed well.