Lisa Sain Odom
Associate Professor of Music, Vocal Studies and Musical Theatre
Contact
Department of Performing Arts
Office: 214 Brooks
Phone: 214 Brooks
Website: http://www.lisasainodom.com
Email: odom@clemson.edu
Education
Doctor of Musical Arts, Vocal Performance, University of South Carolina; Master of Music, Vocal Performance, Converse University
Dr. Lisa Sain Odom is an Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson University where she teaches musical theater and singing-related courses and lessons. She is an opera and musical theatre singer and actor and holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree in Vocal Performance from the University of South Carolina.
As an opera and concert singer, Dr. Odom has appeared with orchestras and opera companies throughout the Southeastern United States as well as in Italy and Austria. Some of her opera roles include Papagena (Die Zauberflote), Isabelle/Madeline (The Face on the Barroom Floor), Musetta (La Boheme), Anne Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor), and Monica (The Medium). An accomplished concert soloist, some of Dr. Odom’s appearances include soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C; Mozart’s Coronation Mass; and Mozart’s Missa Brevis with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; concert soloist in the Chiesa di Sant’Andrea in Orvieto, Italy; Ophelia in a concert version of Thomas’ Hamlet; and in the role of Anna in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. Dr. Odom founded and performs with the soprano trio, “The Blonde, the Brunette and the Redhead,” singing opera, musical theater and jazz in concerts throughout the Southeast.
Equally comfortable in the world of musical theatre, Dr. Odom has performed a variety of roles including Julie Jordan (Carousel), the Baker’s Wife (Into the Woods), Chairy (Barnum!), Jeannie (Brigadoon) and Rose (The Secret Garden). She sang in the US premiere of British composer Ivor Novello’s show The Dancing Years and also performed the role of K.D. McLady in the world premiere of DOGS: The Musical at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. In addition to her stage work, Dr. Odom is a television and film actress and has appeared in a variety of independent films that have shown in festivals throughout the US and Europe, and she often appears as an actor or spokesperson in industrial films and commercials.
The 2021 recipient of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Voice Pedagogy Award, Dr. Odom is a past President of the SC Chapter of NATS and is currently the Vice Chair of the Musical Theatre and Dance Committee of the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). She has studied with acclaimed teachers of both classical and contemporary vocal pedagogy such as Donald Simonson, Robert Edwin, Stephanie Samaras, and Jeannette LoVetri and has presented at workshops with SETC (in Baltimore; Mobile; Lexington; Louisville), Regional NATS, and the Musical Theatre Educators Alliance (Atlanta and London). In spring of 2022, Dr. Odom was named a Clemson University CAAH Creativity Professor, and in spring of 2024 she was named Professor of the Year for the College of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Odom has served as musical director or vocal coach for a variety of musical theater productions including Rent; Guys and Dolls; She Loves Me; The Best Christmas Pageant Ever; and Barab’s children’s opera The Toy Shop.
In addition to her work at Clemson, Dr. Odom has served on the music faculties of North Greenville University and Western Carolina University, and she writes regularly for the internationally distributed publication Classical Singer.
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Odom, Lisa Sain. "Get Into the College of Your Dreams." Classical Singer, 4 October 2022, https://www.csmusic.net/content/articles/get-into-the-college-of-your-dreams/.
Conference Presentations (Delivered)
Odom, Lisa Sain. "Making the Cut: Your Perfect Musical Audition Cut." Southeastern Theatre Conference, March 2021.
Odom, Lisa Sain. "Difficult Conversations: Classic Musical Theatre and the Modern Audience." Southeastern Theatre Conference, 28 February 2020.
