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Olivia Powell (she/her) is a writer, artist and director who wonders what else stories can be and do. Embracing a poetic sensibility, she experiments across narrative forms and creates works that are often described as "the bedtime stories that we forgot to tell." Olivia studied film at Dartmouth College and earned her MA in Digital Direction from the Royal College of Art. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the international Lumen Prize in Art and Technology for a film script co-devised with GPT-2. Olivia is committed to story development processes that aim to be experimental, instinctual, imaginative and accessible.

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Liza Couser (she/her) is a director and producer of new plays and musicals based in New York City. She is interested in the complex, comedic, absurd, heart-wrenching, ensemble-driven, collaborative and formally adventurous. Select recent credits: Primetime Theater (Co-Founder & Producer), MEAT (Director, VOX Fest), Cowboy Face (Producer, Dixon Place), Casablanca on The Hudson (Director, Dixon Place). Liza has presented work with Ars Nova, Northern Stage, The Tank, New London Barn Playhouse, 59E59 Theaters, Theater for the New City, BRIC Arts and Dartmouth College. Fellowships: Roundabout Directors Group, SDCF Observership, Ars Nova Artistic Fellowship, 24 Hour Plays Nationals. Learn more about Liza >

Now in its 9th year, VoxLab is an incubator for the development of the daring, the innovative and the unique. The week-long theatre residency sees Dartmouth alumni workshopping developing projects on campus alongside current students and faculty. With a focus on devised theater and the experimental performance experience, VoxLab offers alumni and current students the opportunity to immerse themselves in the creative process and brings fearless contemporary performance to the Dartmouth community.