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Molly Flynn is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Birkbeck, University of London, where she also serves as Programme Director for the BA Theatre and Performance and co-director of the Centre for Contemporary Theatre. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2016), MA from Brown University (2008), and BA from New York University (2006). Her research focuses on theatre as a catalyst for social change, with special emphasis on Ukrainian theatre post-Euromaidan and documentary theatre in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Prior to Birkbeck, Flynn worked at Royal Holloway, University of London (2016–2017) and University College London (2015–2016). She co-founded the New York Neo-Futurists experimental theatre collective (2004) and co-produced On the War at the Royal Court Theatre (2020). Her recent projects include the Women and War initiative (2022), commissioning plays by Ukrainian playwrights Kateryna Penkova and Anastasiia Kosodii.
Her publications include the 2023 anthology Ukrainian New Drama After the Euromaidan Revolution and the 2020 monograph Witness onstage: Documentary theatre in twenty-first-century Russia. She has contributed to journals like TDR, New Theatre Quarterly, and RiDE, and organized events such as the 2019 international symposium Depicting Donbas.
Flynn’s work bridges academic research and practical theatre-making, emphasizing theatre’s role in civic engagement and cross-cultural dialogue. She has received grants including the AHRC-funded For Love or Money? project (2016) examining collaborations between amateur and professional theatre groups.
