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Clare Chandler

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Senior Lecturer Musical Theatre (W - Creative Arts and Design)

Clare Chandler is a musical theatre practitioner and researcher currently studying for a PhD at Lancaster University. She is also a senior lecturer in musical theatre at the University of Lincoln. In her thesis Clare explores utopian feminist resistance in the musical, proposing a contemporary feminist poetics for musical theatre. Clare has published widely about feminism and the musical, including work exploring the 'almost' feminism of Hamilton, and critical responses to the flawed female protagonists in Paris and the Musical . Clare's most recent work, the edited collection Contemporary British Musicals: 'Out Of The Darkness' has been published by Methuen Drama.

Publications

  • Chandler, C. & Gowland, G. (2024) Contemporary British Musicals: 'Out of the Darkness' Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Johnson Quinn, A. & Chandler, C. (2022) '"Forget About the Boy” Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre.’ In: MacDonald, L., Everett, W. A. & Donovan, R. (eds) The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. London: Routledge.
  • Chandler, C., Grossi, A. & Milburn, L. (eds.) (2022) Theatre Notebook Volume 76 Number 3
  • Chandler, C., Grossi, A. & Milburn, L. (eds.) (2021) Theatre Notebook Volume 75 Number 3
  • Chandler, C. (2021). The Courtesan and the Collaborator: Marguérite [2008]. In: Jubin, O. (ed) Paris in the Musical: The City of Light on Stage and Screen. London: Routledge.
  • Chandler, C. & Scheuber-Rush, S. (2021) ‘Does Anybody Have A Map?’ The Impact of ‘Virtual Broadway’ on Musical Theatre Composition. The Journal of Popular Culture 54:2 April 2021
  • Chandler, C. (2019) 'Integration and Disintegration: Next To Normal and Pedagogies of Difference', MTEA Journal, 2(1) ed. Moore, T.
  • Chandler, C. (2018) “Let me be part of the narrative” – The Schuyler Sisters ‘almost’ feminist? Contemporary Theatre Review Interventions ed. Schmidt, T. www.contemporarytheatrereview.org

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Co-workers & collaborators

  • Simeon Scheuber-Rush

  • Rachel Griffiths

  • Gus Gowland

  • Arianne Johnson Quinn

  • Aleksei Grinenko

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