In the competitive world of moviemaking, it pays to be multitalented. No one knows that more than Wilmington’s Olivia Gropp. An actor for more than 10 years—since she got her first commercial at age 13—Gropp has also become a writer, director, and producer.
An Ursuline Academy graduate, Gropp has made three short films for which she jokes she did everything but the catering. “My previous agents asked me to make a TikTok, and personally, I just don’t have the personality to lip-sync to songs,” Gropp says. “And so I started making my own films instead. This honestly grew out of COVID. I was losing my mind with the industry being shut down, so I just started writing down my dreams.”
Her latest work is “Gloria’s Cut,” a comedic horror movie set in 1995. Filmed in Idaho in December of last year, it is very much inspired by Delaware, Gropp says…