Celeste Oliva*
Celeste Oliva* (Edith Bonner) happily returns to the stage and to Central Square Theater after a 3 year hiatus. Oliva was a regular on Boston stages and last appeared in Tiny Beautiful Things earning her an Elliot Norton award. She was a member of the cast of the long running Shear Madness which also took her to their off Broadway production for a spell. Other projects include Ch’inglish, Grounded, Between Riverside and Crazy, and Arcadia. Oliva just wrapped filming on the new Amazon series 56 Days playing Camille Russo coming in February 2026. She will also appear on the next season of Paradise and The Diplomat. Oliva recurred on HBO’s Julia as well as We Own This City, long running network shows Law&Order (Original) & Bull, and has guest starred in Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS Hawai’i, Blue Bloods The Black List, FBI: Most Wanted and others. Oliva appears in several Academy award winning films like American Fiction, I Care A Lot, and Mystic River. You can see her in the films Sorry, Baby, The Exorcist:Believer, Parachute and Salem’s Lot. Oliva is also a voice over artist, book narrator, and writer. She is based in NYC and is repped by The Lisa Lax Agency and Entertainment Lab. iG @actingcelested