Email: m.mcphee(at)peoplespalace.org.uk
Dr Molly McPhee works with PPP as Postdoctoral Researcher for Twenty Years of Fuel: The Role and Development of the Independent Producer in Theatre and the Cultural Economy, an archival research project to mark the occasion of Fuel’s 20th anniversary in 2024.
Molly brings significant experience working within theatre archives to Fuel and PPP, including six years with Clean Break Theatre Company (2009-2015), during which period she toured and marketed over fifteen productions and began the process of digitising the company’s four decades of archival materials. She currently writes on Clean Break’s archive for the AHRC-funded project Women/Theatre/Justice, led by Professor Caoimhe McAvinchey of Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama. Molly’s publications on theatre and the criminal justice system investigate the ways in which social stigma, policing, and imaginaries of prison and public health staged within the theatre produce sensorial atmospheres of carcerality, and how carceral atmospheres agitate degrees of political engagement within audiences across a range of sites of performance. In addition to her research with Fuel and PPP, Molly is Creative Producer for Queen Mary’s Arts and Culture unit, a Teaching Fellow in the School of English and Drama, and a reader for the Royal Court Theatre. She trained at University of Melbourne (PhD, Theatre and Performance Studies), California Institute of the Arts (MFA, Critical Studies) and was a Fulbright Fellow at University of Hamburg.
