Olivia Clark Omardien

Olivia Clark Omardien

Rehearsal Director

Olivia Clark Omardien is originally from Bellville, Ohio. She received her ballet training in Columbus, Ohio as part of the BalletMet Dance Academy Pre-Professional Program, where she was recipient of the Lucy Porter Scholarship. Her dance career included work with Festival Ballet of Rhode Island, Nashville Ballet and BalletMet, where she was a company member for 18 seasons. With BalletMet, she performed roles such as Mina in David Nixon’s Dracula, the Solo Girl in George Balanchine’s Rubies, the principal role in Maurice Hines’ High C, Clara in The Nutcracker, Fortuna in Dwight Rhoden’s Carmina Burana, Autumn in James Kudelka’s The Four Seasons, and the title role in Amadeo Amodio’s Carmen among many others. She was also in the original cast of James Kudelka’s The Man in Black. In 2006, Olivia performed in Poland as part of the International Contemporary Dance Festival, and in 2010 toured with BalletMet to perform in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Also in 2010, she was awarded the Violetta Boft Memorial Award. In addition to onstage efforts, in 2007 she began to take on the duties of an Assistant Rehearsal Director for BalletMet. Throughout the rest of her career, she assisted with the staging and rehearsing of many company productions. Since retiring from the stage, Olivia has had the opportunity to stage Kudelka’s The Man in Black for companies in the US including BalletMet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Idaho, Smuin Contemporary Ballet, and Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre. She became Rehearsal Director of BalletMet in 2023. Oliva is married to former Company Dancer Hisham Omardien and together they have two kids, Safiyyah and Zayn.