Clare Chandler is the Programme Leader for Musical Theatre at the University of Lincoln, UK, and a director whose credits include the national premiere of Angry Birds the Musical (2018), the Rewrites tour workshop of Nel’s Place (2024), and new works such as Folklore (2025) and The Cambridge First All Ladies Fire Brigade (forthcoming, Lincoln Arts Centre 2026). Her research explores feminism and musical theatre and pedagogical practice and performer training, and she is co-editor of Contemporary British Musicals: Out of the Darkness (Methuen).
Recent publications:
Chandler, Clare (2024), ‘“Have you seen this?”: Constructing and controlling reality in The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (2018)’, Studies in Musical Theatre, 18:1, pp. 7–20, https://doi.org/10.1386/smt_00146_1
Chandler, C. & Gowland, G. (2024) Contemporary British Musicals: 'Out of the Darkness'
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
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