Sterling Matthew Oliver

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 Hi! Welcome to my website. Thanks for coming by. You already know my name - at least, I hope you do - but who am I? 

I'm a passionate creator across not only many disciplines, but departments within those disciplines. I began as an actor for Theatre and still love to act to this day - since then, I've developed other skills to supplement it. Most notably, I do a lot of sound design & music composition for plays & have recently begun to get into Video Game design as well.  

I was born in the small town of Marysville, KS where I was able to find my artistic voice early, which was extremely lucky for me in that town of 3,000. I got to work with other Theatre artists and learn, in my earliest days, how to act & collaborate on art professionally. As time moved on, I began to explore tech more and more, and get into Sound Design & eventually, Lighting Design. 

After graduating from Marysville High School in 2015, I decided to drive a whole HOUR away to Kansas State University for college, where I got degrees in Theatre, Film Studies, and Musical Theatre. During my time at K-State, I was also blessed with great leadership opportunities, such as leading the Men's A Cappella Choir, Cadence, as music director for two years, which let me take them for the first time to the ICCA competition, the A Cappella festival from Pitch Perfect. Yes, It's real.

I also was blessed with the opportunity to lead as President of the Kansas State Theatre Organization during my final year, which bled into the beginnings of the COVID-19 Pandemic. I used my leadership skills to keep our department together, as optimistic as possible, during this time, by creating a season of virtual staged readings & a play festival where we got to practice writing specifically /for/ virtual performance. I also produced a video guide to virtual productions during this time that has been used across the world to help produce virtual performances.