THE ODYSSEY: BELLY OF THE BEAST at Groton-Dunstable Middle School
Odds Bodkin visits Groton-Dunstable Middle School to perform THE ODYSSEY: BELLY OF THE BEAST, his 70-minute Classics show accompanied on 12-string guitar.
Get Details »GOLDEN RULE at Rumsey Hall School (2 performances)
Odds Bodkin visits Rumsey Hall School to perform 2 GOLDEN RULE performances for grades PreK-1 and 2-5.
Get Details »TOLKIEN INSPIRED TALES
Odds Bodkin offers this wondrous storytelling performance, TOLKIEN INSPIRED TALES, to the pubic on Dec. 6th, 2025 at 12:45 pm. Suitable for children but geared to adults, this hour of myths and folktales mirrors the lore Tolkien drew upon in writing THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Get Details »ODIN AND THOR BATTLE THE FROST GIANTS. Odds Bodkin Tells Viking Myths Live.
Odds Bodkin returns to Grendel’s Den on Harvard Square in Cambridge MA to perform two long Viking myths: THOR’S JOURNEY TO UTGARD and THE MEAD OF POETRY. Two thunderous 12-string guitars provide the music. Character voices and sound effects enhance these adult tales. Enjoy Viking lore as well. No children under 12, please.
Get Details »BEOWULF: THE ONLY ONE Live Performance by Odds Bodkin
Odds Bodkin returns to Grendel’s Den in Cambridge MA to perform his epic version of BEOWULF before a live audience Sunday, Feb. 1 2026 at 5 pm. A haunting score on 12-string guitar brings the oldest tale in the English language to life. Come drink, eat like a Viking and then sit back to hear this “consummate storyteller” (the New York Times).
Get Details »GOLDEN RULE for Kindergarteners
Odds Bodkin returns to Memorial School in Natick, MA to perform GOLDEN RULE for kindergarteners.
Get Details »THE ODYSSEY at Phillips Academy Andover
Odds Bodkin visits Phillips Andover to perform THE ODYSSEY: BELLY OF THE BEAST in an evening performance for students and faculty.
Get Details »Odds Bodkin offers school assemblies for K-3, 4-6, middle and high school audiences, all with compelling age-appropriate stories. To incorporate Door to Imagination workshops for students and staff, invite him for a 1, 3 or 5 day residency.
MUSEUM PERFORMANCES
The Peabody-Essex Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Sackler Museum at Harvard, the Portland Art Museum and others have enhanced their exhibitions by inviting Mr. Bodkin to tell tales relevant to works on display. As a practicing mythologist, he tells tales from Japan, China, India, Tibet, ancient Greece, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, Africa, Polynesia, South America, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ireland and England (Arthurian), not to mention Aesop’s Fables, American Tall Tales and ghost stories from New England.
THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES
Chautauqua in Boulder, CO, Lincoln Center Institute in New York, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State and others host Odds Bodkin shows for student groups and the public. From The Odyssey: Belly of the Beast to family StoryBlast! concerts where everybody sings together and brings down the house, Odds is a one-man show.
UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCES
Year after year, Loyola University Maryland hosts The Odyssey or The Iliad: Book I for Classics and Honors students. For seven years in a row, St. Anselm College brought in the entire freshman class for The Iliad: Book I, their first humanities lecture. UC Boulder invites Odds and Naturalist Martin Ogle to team up for StoryEarth, a storytelling and multimedia presentation that explores big questions. University of New Hampshire students invite him to perform his version of Beowulf. Wharton School of Business hires him to tell The Odyssey. All know that Mr. Bodkin can compel university audiences in a way they love. He has also performed at Syracuse, Wofford College, Dartmouth, Colorado College, Boston University, Ohio Dominican University, Emerson College in Great Britain and others.
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Phone: (603) 938-5120 or use the form to the left!