Felicia Oduh

Felicia Oduh is a Nigerian-American, Chicago-based actor and playwright whose work focuses on Black womanhood, identity formation, and underrepresented narratives across the diaspora. Her work has been produced and workshopped/developed with Jackalope Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Vertigo Productions, and Black Lives, Black Words. Felicia is also a writer for OTV’s comedic web series, How to L0ve. She is included in the Kilroys 2023 web for her play, Mercy; an inaugural member of AGE in the Arts’ Ignite Spring 2021 Cohort; an inaugural recipient of the Reva and David Logan Foundation’s 2021 Artist Grant; and a semi-finalist for American Blues Theater’s 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Felicia is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied theatre, playwriting, and acting...

Felicia Oduh is a Nigerian-American, Chicago-based actor and playwright whose work focuses on Black womanhood, identity formation, and underrepresented narratives across the diaspora. Her work has been produced and workshopped/developed with Jackalope Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Vertigo Productions, and Black Lives, Black Words. Felicia is also a writer for OTV’s comedic web series, How to L0ve. She is included in the Kilroys 2023 web for her play, Mercy; an inaugural member of AGE in the Arts’ Ignite Spring 2021 Cohort; an inaugural recipient of the Reva and David Logan Foundation’s 2021 Artist Grant; and a semi-finalist for American Blues Theater’s 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award. Felicia is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied theatre, playwriting, and acting for the screen.

Scripts

Island of Love

by Felicia Oduh

2

Cast Size

9

Genre

comedy,

satire

Island of Love is a comedy that follows a batch of romantic hopefuls who are competing for a chance to win love and a large cash prize on the UK’s hottest summer reality dating series. Though everyone has come on the show for the same reasons, one contestant soon learns that not everyone will have the same experience. Positioning the audience as the camera and including all of your favorite elements of reality...

Island of Love is a comedy that follows a batch of romantic hopefuls who are competing for a chance to win love and a large cash prize on the UK’s hottest summer reality dating series. Though everyone has come on the show for the same reasons, one contestant soon learns that not everyone will have the same experience. Positioning the audience as the camera and including all of your favorite elements of reality TV -- confessionals, drama, and surprise eliminations -- Island of Love dives deep into the various forms of othering that are faced by reality TV’s Black female contestants, on screen and off.

Mercy

by Felicia Oduh

1

Cast Size

5

Genre

drama

When Eric was leaving for college, he thought he and his best friend had the world at their fingertips – until he was convicted for a crime he did not commit. Now, after 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, Eric is finally home and his mother is throwing a party, whether he’s ready to celebrate or not. In this stirring drama about forgiveness, second chances, and the failures of our justice system, one man...

When Eric was leaving for college, he thought he and his best friend had the world at their fingertips – until he was convicted for a crime he did not commit. Now, after 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, Eric is finally home and his mother is throwing a party, whether he’s ready to celebrate or not. In this stirring drama about forgiveness, second chances, and the failures of our justice system, one man struggles to reclaim the life he lost, while his family attempts to heal an age-old fracture.

Expecting

by Felicia Oduh

1

Cast Size

3

Genre

experimental,

mystery/thriller,

political

When Aria falls sick during her pregnancy, she turns to the one person she expects to keep her alive: her doctor. But will her doctor meet those expectations? This ten-minute thriller explores maternal mortality as faced by Black women in America.