Olivia Bratko
Writer, Performer, ProducerOlivia is taking us 100 years into the future to explore what sex can be
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ABOUT OLIVIA
Olivia is an SF-based writer, director, performer, and producer, exploring the nature of reality and death in a series of one-person shows and collaborations.
Olivia has made a living for the past decade by producing events and theatre. She has produced her own festival, ran stages and product activations at larger festivals, put together events ranging from high-end fundraiser galas to scrappy team-building outings in Golden Gate park. She currently work at UCSF as an Events Specialist.
INTERESTSTheatre, Comedy, Performance Art, Event Production, Love, Death, Sex, Fear
VISIONSan Francisco is a place where we understand the destructive power of fear-based messaging and work to protect ourselves and each other
The future of sex
How do you want it?
What is sex? Who has it? Who pays for it? What feels good? What is missing from the way we have sex now? What kind of sex do we want our descendants to have? How do our current laws, medical practices, and cultural norms affect the sex we have, or want to have?
The Future Of Sex is set in the not-so-distant future, 100 years from now, and utilizes sci-fi imaginings to create a reality where some of our current problems are solved, allowing us to look at sex in a new light, and see the possibilities for radical change.
The Future of Sex takes the form of a meeting of the SF Sex Commission to deliver our recommendations on regulating the new technology and practices of the future! A combination of rehearsed debate between Commission Members, partially scripted audience participation, and improvised participatory dialogue with all attendees.
July 7 & 8, 2026 • 7-9pmTenderloin Museum
Olivia’s Picks
Check out some of the materials and resources that have helped shape Olivia’s visions for what could be.
Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Show
In 1966, three years before Stonewall, the Tenderloin district of San Francisco became the stage for one of the first acts of organized LGBTQ+ resistance in the United States. This is an immersive show set in a diner space. You get to eat pancakes and sausage and watch queer history play out in front of you. I’m biased because I am in fact in this show sometimes. It’s great tho.
I Saw the TV Glow
I’m fucking obsessed with this movie, so good so beautiful so weird and strange. Its ambiguity is breathtaking. One of my favorite things to do in SF is to ugly-cry in the Roxie and this movie really gets you there. It spoke to me in my heart. Incredible acting, very excited to see more from Jane Schoenbrun.
No One Is Talking About This
This was my top book recommendation for at least two years. It’s the only good book about The Internet and it travels the distance from surreal to real and back and forth. It will also make you ugly-cry probably. My sister said that I only ever recommend weird and disturbing books and I think that’s true so if you like beautiful gorgeous strange brilliant pain you will love this book.