Olivia Slaby

Liv Slaby is a fourth-year Musicology major minoring in Theater. She is pursuing a graduate degree in dramatic writing and has written and directed three one-act plays, in addition to other directing, acting, and vocal directing credits with UCLA’s HOOLIGAN Theatre Company. Liv’s URSP project is an audio drama that takes place in an almost-underwater San Francisco in 2199. Two Earth-born college hockey players, hoping to move to Mars after graduation, find that their climb to the championships is complicated by the arrival of a new Martian teammate who reveals that the colony is no longer habitable. This project employs a diverse bibliography of creative and scholarly works from the fields of sound and voice studies, play theory, science fiction, and queer theory to evoke sound’s multisensory forms and capacity for interpersonal connection. By dealing with queer and female embodiment in a disembodied medium, this project illuminates ways we orient ourselves to our own bodies and entities we perceive as others, exploring compassion through sonic perception.