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Olivia Cuartero-Briggs
Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (born Olivia Briggs) is an American author of comic books, graphic novels, stage plays, film and television. Her work includes the comic book series Mary Shelley Monster Hunter and Silver City, as well as the anthology series Bottles on the Water, a Night of Short Plays from Abroad. She has written for television series, including The Arrangement and Queen of the South, and has won numerous awards, namely the Student Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, The New York Theater Festival Best Original Play Award , and the The Hollywood Comedy Shorts Festival’s Best of Fest Award. In 2019 Mary Shelley Monster Hunter was named one of i09’s Best Comics of the Year.

Early Life
Cuartero-Briggs was born in New York City and raised in midtown’s Manhattan Plaza.

Cuartero-Briggs attended Saint Anns School, and graduated in 2001. From there, she went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College with honors in theater.

Career
Cuartero-Briggs performed in several independent and short films, before moving on to work in camera department, and as a first assistant director.

From 2006 - 2013 Cuartero-Briggs directed the annual Shakespeare productions as part of The West Kortright Centre’s Young People’s Theater Arts Workshop, a program Cuartero-Briggs participated in as child from 1987-1998. In 2009 Cuartero-Briggs produced a documentary film about the unique program, entitled The Workshop, released in 2012.

In 2013 Cuartero-Briggs graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia in Singapore, with an M.F.A. in dramatic writing. It was there she created The Cobra Paper, a school paper that gained notoriety in 2012 when Cuartero-Briggs published an article on the school’s closure.

Upon returning to New York City, Cuartero-Briggs produced a series of short plays alongside fellow Tisch graduate Victoria Keenan-Zelt. The production, Bottles on the Water, A Night of Short Plays from Abroad was performed at New York City’s off-Broadway Arthur Seleen Theater. The collection was then published by Next Stage Press. Cuartero-Briggs’s short play Expecting Lila received a staged reading at Virginia’s Panglossian Productions

In 2014, Cuartero-Briggs’s full-length play Ronnie’s Cabinet received a production at New York’s Cabrini Repertory Theater and the Roy Arias II, earning the New York Theater Festival’s Best Original Play award.

In 2015, Cuartero-Briggs worked as a writers’ assistant on the first season of Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. She then went on to E! Entertainment’s The Arrangement, writing episodes 108 and 206, and episode 504 of Queen of the South for USA Network.

Concurrently, in 2018, Cuartero-Briggs co-wrote the comic book series Mary Shelley Monster Hunter with writer/producer Adam Glass. Her first solo comic book series, Silver City, was published by Aftershock Comics in 2021.

Also in 2018, Cuartero-Briggs co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the TV short Peaked in High School, winning The Hollywood Comedy Shorts Best of Fest Award.

Cuartero-Briggs has also written episodes for the Meet Cute Podcast, as well as the Bad Boy Bachelor and Bad Boy Bachelor Island series for the Episode Interactive app.

Cuartero-Briggs has appeared on several podcasts, including In Love with the Process, The Comic Source Podcast , The Comic Book Club , What She's Having , and Creator Talks.