Richard Molony

Deputy Head, Communications, Screen and Performance
School for the Creative Industries
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I am originally from Northern Ireland and as such, I have a complex approach to the theme of identity as it relates to heritage, national pride and religion. My work is in some ways trying to find an answer as to where I place myself on the socio-political map. I have shown works and performed in various events in Chester, Shunt in London and the Millennium Square in Leeds.

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I joined the University of Chester full time teaching in January 2011 but prior to that I had been teaching here part time alongside teaching at University of Salford, Staffordshire University and SERC in Northern Ireland.

I work across disciplines at the University as media based work straddles dance, drama and pop music, albeit in different ways. Working in this way, I have experience of and am able to teach and work with students from all disciplines.

My teaching focuses on the integration of digital technology in performance in a way that it is integral and not supplemental, thus opening up new avenues of working in the respective fields.

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My past work has been focusing on identity and its creation from a cultural point of view, which then moved on to identity as an individual and how we create and perform our “self”.

Most recently I have been interested in where does the self stop and the performance begin within performance, which has led me to the study of Stand Up Comedy, both its performance and reception. This early research is forming the basis for PhD study, which is due to commence in 2011.

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Performances

2015

V-Is-It Chester?

Chancers Workshop

Chester City Centre, Misguided tour

Site, Sight, Cite

Chancers Workshop

2014

Time Please

Chancers Workshop

Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival

2011                                                      

Peas with a hat, please. Thank you! 

The Oblique Strategists

Radical Artists Festival at Urban Cultural Centre and The University of Chester

2009

The Knowledge of Whitby Steps

Millennium Square Leeds

2008

HyperrealiTV

University of Chester

2008

If Walls Could Talk

Up the Walls, Chester Performs Festival

2008

Fizz Bomb

Shunt London

2008

EgoII

University of Chester

2007

Ego

Biometric Festival, Chester

2007

Labanoise

University of Chester

2008 University of Chester MA Performance Practice

2007 University of Chester BA Hons. Drama and Theatre Studies and Performance New Media