Visiting Theater Artists
Cliff Osmond
Stage and Screen Actor
Cliff is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (English major), holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration (Finance) from UCLA, where he also advanced to candidacy for his Ph.D. (Theatre History).
Mr. Osmond has guest starred in over 150 television shows and over 30 major motion pictures, 4 by the legendary writer/director/producer, Billy Wilder. He has written scores of produced television episodes, movies and pilots, as well as several feature films and a novel. He has also been nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for an episode of the television show "Streets of San Francisco" as well as wrote and directed the feature film "The Penitent" and collaborated on "Power Play" starring Peter O'Toole, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Canadian Film Festival.
A long time acting teacher and coach based in Los Angeles, he has lectured and conducted film workshops and seminars at the U.S. Film and Video Festival in Park City, Utah, The Denver Film Festival, The University of Texas, The University of Utah, among several others across the 50 states. During the fall semester 2004, he was Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence at Georgetown University in Washington, DC; where he taught acting, and guest directed the Henrik Ibsen classic, A Doll's House. He will return to Georgetown in April, 2006 to play Galileo in a staged reading of playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker's new revised version of Galileo's Daughter, originally staged in London in 2004.
