Career
Cleveland also had a guest role in an episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System-television series M*A*South*H spin-off Trapper John, Doctor of Medicine in 1986. Beginning as a receptionist and writer at the Watts Writer"s Workshop/Theater in Los Angeles, and under the tutelage of Budd Schulberg, Odessa began appearing in such productions as Black Girl in Search of God at Jim Wood"s Studio Watts Theater in Los Los Angeles In 1974, she portrayed "Jim"s" slave wife in the 1974 musical release of Huckleberry Finn.
