WVU Division of Theatre and Dance

Cathy O'Dell
Adjunct Instructor of Theatre

Cathy O'Dell teaches Introduction to Theater and has developed and is currently teaching a movement/acting class geared towards graduate and undergraduate opera students. Cathy received her BA in Theater and Speech Communications from Fairmont State College, and her MFA in Acting from West Virginia University. Her other training includes an Advanced Acting course from Carnegie Mellon University.   She also teaches at Fairmont Stage College. Her duties there include teaching Voice and Diction, Speech Improvement and Theater Appreciation.   She has recently developed and is teaching Voice for the Stage, which puts emphasis on voice training for classical texts and voice-over training. Cathy has acted professionally at the American Contemporary Theater Festival. Her regional and local experience includes acting and directing at MT Pockets Theater and Fairmont State College. Her other professional work includes on-camera acting in several national industrial and training films and extensive voice-over work in the Pittsburgh/Ohio area. Cathy was also a featured actor in The Learning Channel's production of a documentary entitled Night Visitors.