Molly Olivia Broad Bristol, United Kingdom

Finding its beginnings in the written word, a playful, experimental frame of mind, passion for wild nature, and integrating different artistic disciplines that she loves, her practice encompasses visual art, soundscape, film, photography, music, performance, painting, nature art, and a keen interest in the realms of free-flow, spontaneous, ecstatic creativity.

Within her work and life she likes to look at philosophy, absurdism, liminality and communion with the divine. She enjoys playing with heightened conversation, explorations of external and internal space and the wild freedom that can be found in oneness with nature and within open, explorative expression and communication. She has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, writers and creative performers, directing short films and works of performance, and operated as a dramaturg and initiator of projects.

She received a professional vocational degree in Theatre, Media & Performance (University of Plymouth) in Bristol, where she spent two years co-directing, devising and performing original work as a key member of the ensemble 'Seven Stages'; including a one-woman performance of April de Angelis' Iron Mistress; performing the lead role of Lara in Invisible by Tena Stivicic; and performing multiple roles in a devised dance and physical theatre production of Simon Stephen's Pornography. An artist working in the discipline of digital video and soundscape, she has also created multi-media content to feature in original theatre performances. She worked as a dramaturg and director on her own adaptation of Peter Weiss' 'Marat/Sade', which was performed as a site-specific ‘psychodrama duet’ at Hamilton House, Bristol; co-wrote and co-devised the experimental performance Online at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol; exhibited video/sound/text art at the Embassy Theatre, London; and supported Chris Lynam on stage at the music and arts festival Nozstock: The Hidden Valley while simultaneously working as a stage manager and theatre programmer/curator on site. She has also studied film, experimental performance and theatre at the University of Falmouth and trained intensively on the Theatre Practice: Performance Arts programme at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, where she co-produced the cross-disciplinary /live art festival Youtopia.

Since leaving RCSSD and London in 2017 she has produced and co-directed the intimate, experimental Ophelia: Madness (in blue), a production celebrating the other story of Shakespeare’s passionate, poetic heroine with blues, jazz and classical vocals, Elizabethan verse and cello, piano and classical guitar accompaniment, and which Time Out London listed as one of the top ten must-see shows of the Camden Fringe season. She also performed multiple movement, puppet, singing and character roles in a touring production of The Souls Awaken, adapted from Rudolf Steiner’s transformative ‘mystery drama. She also performed multiple roles in Circle Theatre’s inventive and radical adaptation of Peer Gynt. She has performed the role of Leontes in Alexander Gifford’s devised adaptation of The Winters Tale, drawing on Theatre of the Oppressed, Theatre Reportage, and European theatre methodologies, at the Asha Centre (Forest of Dean) while training on their radical Peace through the Performing Arts program.

As of Autumn 2019 Molly has taken time away from theatre and performance to focus her energy on developing projects of her own, and developing her awareness and experience as a healing practitioner. She’s learnt therapeutic practices, including arts therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama and psychotherapy through taking part in many workshops, ongoing closed groups, circles and private sessions. She is currently studying Humanistic Approaches to Therapy with Chrysalis, and has completed CPD in Dramatherapy methodologies with Scenario Arts, both well reputed organizations in Bristol (UK). She has also undertaken intensive training at ULEX Arts, (Catalunya), with Reboot the Roots, and on the Peace through the Performing Arts program at the ASHA Centre (Forest of Dean). In recent times Molly has been a member of an ongoing, closed psychodrama circle facilitated by psychotherapist/psychodramatist Mike Chase.

She aims to create a distinctive, integrative and multidisciplinary practice from her learning and research, encompassing the therapeutic arts, creative expression, transpersonal experience, community building, movement, food as natural nourishment, life-festival and medicine, and deep connection with nature. You can find out more about this journey and practice by checking out her blog: | rambling medicine |

Molly now continues to expand her spheres of experience, play and collaboration by attending somatic movement circles in both Bristol and Stroud (UK), soaking up the diverse plethora of approaches that are illuminating and energising for the body, soul and psyche in amazing ways. She is devoted to a number of creative projects all of her own design and imagination, including experimental music, playshops, and the 'Theatre of the Intimate'.