Teaching Artist
Olivia Tate currently works as a Government and IB Social and Cultural Anthropology Teacher at Marshall High School. In addition to teaching, Olivia also coaches Freshmen Girls Basketball for Marshall and helps out with directing for Marshall’s theatre program. She directed/wrote a devised piece with five Marshall students called “Edit Profile” last year that won first place at the Sectional level and was the runner-up at the Regional level at the Virginia High School League 2021 competition. This year Olivia assistant directed A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Fall 2021) and A Year of Frog and Toad (Spring 2022) at Marshall. Olivia is excited to return to one of her homes, Encore, for another summer and hopes to get her hands dirty (in a fun and constructive way)!”