Kate Massey-Chase

• PhD Drama; University of Exeter
• MA Applied Theatre - Drama in the Community & Drama Education; Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• BA (Hons) English & Drama; University of Winchester

• Theory & Practice 1
• Theatre for Social Change
• 20th Century Text and Performance
• New Writing in Performance
• Music & Interdisciplinary Practice
• The Interdisciplinary Practitioner
• The Festival Performer

Kate’s research interests are in applied theatre and socially engaged creative practices. Her doctoral research examined how applied theatre practice could support young people in the transition between Child & Adolescent and Adult Mental Health Services. In 2019, she presented some of this research to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing’s roundtable on Children and Young People’s Mental Health and the Arts, in the House of Lords.

She is also interested in different research methodologies, including autoethnography and practice-based research.

Books:

McKean, A. & Massey-Chase, K. (eds) (2019) Playing for Time Theatre Company: Perspectives from the Prison, Bristol: Intellect. Nominated for the Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Research Prize for Editing.

Articles:

Massey-Chase, K. (2018) ‘In Practice: Applied Theatre in Adolescent Mental Health Transition Care’, Perspectives in Public Health, 138:1, 16-17.

Book reviews:

Massey-Chase, K. (2019) ‘Review: Web of Performance: An Ensemble Workbook, Monica Prendergast and Will Weigler’, Applied Theatre Research, 7: 1, 131-139.

Unpublished conference papers:

(2018) ‘The Vulnerability and Potency of Autoethnographic Research in Applied Theatre’, Applied and Social Theatre Working Group, TaPRA 2018, University of Aberystwyth.

(2018) ‘The Stories We’re Treated By: Identity Narratives in Mental Health Transition Care’, Practice-as-Research Conference 2018, University of British Columbia & University of Exeter.

(2017) ‘Recovery or Regeneration: reconceptualising the impact of Applied Theatre in mental health contexts’, Applied and Social Theatre Working Group, TaPRA 2017, University of Salford.

Editorial positions:

I was Strand Editor for Media and Performance and Co-Editor for Creative Content in 2017-2018 for Question: Essays and Art from the Humanities, a new journal targeted at academic and non-academic audiences, created by Humanities students from across the SWWDTP institutions (available in local Waterstones, London Review of Books and universities in the South West).

Co-convenor of the Applied and Social Theatre Working Group for TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association).

• Gender equality and politics
• Contemporary fiction
• Trying and often failing to grow things on her allotment