Theater researcher, teaching fellow at the Department of Theater Studies of the Hebrew University, and Department advisor. She began her professional activities as a theater critic in Moscow and St. Petersburg and received her PhD from the Hebrew University. Her research interests include inter-culturalism in Israeli and modernist Jewish, and Russian theater, and she specializes in the study of children's theater. She initiated and had a major part in the planning and organization of many international conferences and research projects, including a symposium Theatre in the Multicultural Society (Jerusalem, 2008), the Israeli-German research group Performing Arts in Postcolonial Culture: Jerusalem and Berlin (2014-2017), research panels Jewish Theater: Poetics and Politics and The Eternal Jews of The Jewish Theatre  (Sefer International conferences in Moscow, 2019, 2021). In addition, she is a Chair at the Israeli Center for the Documentation of the Performing Arts at Tel Aviv Universiry and  was a curator of the exhibition “Habima: 100 years” (2017-2018) at the Cymbalista Jewish Heritage Center. Olga Levitan has published dozens of articles in Hebrew, Russian, and English. Among them:

"Chekhov and Stanislavsky: The Problem of Innovative Theatracality", Toronto Slavic Quaterly 4, 2014 [Russian];

 “The New Jerusalem Light Rail as a Performative Space” in R. Abeliovich, E. Seroussi (eds.) . Borderlines.Esseaus on Mapping and the Logic of Place. Sciendo, 2019;

«Correspondence between Habima’s Board with Aleksei Diki and Michael Chekhov”. Publication. Introduction and Commentaries”. Accepted for publication in Mnemozina. Documents and Facts from the Russian Theatre History. Moscow: Artist. Director. Theatre, 2019. ]Russian];

Henry Ripszam. Habima – Drawings and Period Photographs. Manchester: Baquis Press, 2021.