Cliff Odle

Cliff Odle is a playwright, actor and director. He is a native of New Jersey and based in New England. He has been involved with theatre around the country. His plays have been performed in Boston, New York, San Diego and other areas. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theater at Bates College. There he has debuted a work in progress called “Blood and Revolution”. This work is a multi-play cycle set in the years leading up to the American Revolution and centering on the lives of colonial African Americans. Among his other plays; Requiem for a Drink, Migraine, A Garnet in the Rough, and Motel Therapy were all successful entries in the annual Boston Theatre Marathon, The Petition had a successful run last summer at the Old State House Museum in Boston. Lost Tempo was produced by Boston Playwrights Theatre in 2017 and helped to inaugurate the theatre’s redesigned space. Our Girl in Trenton has been produced by the BU New Play Initiative Workshop. Running the Bulls was featured in the SlamBoston festival and has been produced by his company, New Urban Theatre Lab; The Ahern Fox was a finalist in the 2007 Kennedy Center Theatre Festival; The Delicate Art of Customer Service has been produced by New Urban Theatre Lab and was produced for the Jersey Voices Annual Theatre Festival. He has been a resident playwright for the educational theatre group Theatre Espresso where he co-wrote their play about the 1957 Little Rock desegregation case called The Nine: Crisis in Little Rock. Cliff has also written plays about cyber-bullying, The Lesson and Think Twice which are currently in rep with Deana’s Educational Theatre. In addition to Bates, he has also taught at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, Wheelock College, Emerson and at the Sondra Feinstein Gamm Theatre Studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He has also worked extensively as an actor and director. He has directed the first UMASS Boston Playwright’s Festival and served as a mentor/dramaturg for the second. He was a co-founder of New Urban Theater Laboratory. He is also founder of Jersey Voices, a one act play festival which is now in its 29th year producing the work of New Jersey playwrights.