Her stage work includes having played the title role in the production My Name Is Rachel Corrie (2006), which won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress.
[2] She graduated from Roseville High School in 1988[3] and then enrolled in a community college, where she was cast as Bananas in John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves.
[citation needed][4] Dodds left the U.S. for London in 1997 to star in British comedian Ben Elton's play Popcorn.
[2] As a result of meeting her future husband, photographer Oliver Pearce, she stayed in London,[2] about which she has said, "I love it here, I really feel like I learn a lot.
[6] Dodds won the London Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in 2007 for the one woman show My Name Is Rachel Corrie,[7] about an activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a 2003 demonstration in Gaza.