Olivia Devorah Tucker (they/them) is an aspiring Jewish Demonologist, Talmud educator, theatre collaborator, and challah sculptor. They have been published in Kenden Alfond’s “Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves” and performed as dramaturg/meturgemon for Ella-Gabriel Mason’s “Queer Jewish: Dancing In Diaspora.” Olivia serves as Alumni Engagement and Community Partnerships Associate for SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva, writes show notes for Judaism Unbound’s The Oral Talmud podcast, and co-ops as a member of The Glitterbox Theater in their home of Pittsburgh, PA (Shawnee & Haudenosaunee land). Olivia puts the femme in ephemera & the trans in translation!
Olivia hosting The Glitterbox Theater’s Purim Variety Spiel (2023). They are wearing a red velvet dress, purple velvet cape, silver tiara, black mask, and black elbow brace. Olivia holds a mic in one hand and a tambourine in the other. Standing in front of a red velvet stage curtain and red & silver tinsel.
Olivia at Queer Talmud Camp 2019, curly purple hair, green dress, outside with an open volume of Talmud. Photo by Laurel Cohen.
Olivia as the demon Bat Melekh (Princess – Shabbat 109a), wearing an eyeball dress, eyeball string of light, eyeball/flower tiara, black wings, and black mesh sleeves. Sitting on a porch at night.
Olivia at the Pittsburgh Jewish Zine Fair (August 2025) in eyeball dress, wings, and white 3M V-Flex N95 mask stands in front of a colourfully graffiti wall. Their class packettes turned zines are on full display. Beside them, friend Nsai Temko shares their fantasy zines with community members. Photo by Anastasia bat Lilith of Stormbringer Press.
TalmudMagic Logo by Ren Finkel of Beis Lakish ~ Linocut of the words “talmud magic” in all caps, with an eye dotting the letter i, surrounded by feathery wings, and based by two chicken feet. Bordered by a ring of etched lines.
Talmud Magic with Olivia Devorah 