Annie McKean MA MBE 

Lecturer 

Arts 

Email:

Annie.Mckean@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

+44 (0) 1962 827398 

Address:

Expertise

Prison Theatre – collaboration with prison education departments on workshops and theatre productions with people in secure institutions. Undergraduate involvement with community theatre in prisons.

Publications

Publications include: ‘Playing for Time in the Dolls’ House’ – Community Theatre with Women Prisoners – published 2006 in Research in Drama in Education.

Artistic Director of Playing for Time Theatre Company (see http://www.playingfortime.org.uk/)

Theatre productions staged annually in West Hill HMP Winchester with undergraduate students working alongside and mentoring prisoners.
2003 Refuge by Dawn Garrigan directed by Annie McKean and Kerryn Davies. A play about women’s experience of the criminal justice system. (Women prisoners and undergraduate students.) Collaboration with Clean Break Theatre Company.
All subsequent production staged with male prisoners and undergraduate students and produced by Annie McKean.
2005 Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker directed by Marianne Sharp
2006 Oh what a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop directed by Martin Constantine. Design by Mark Friend.
2007 Ubu the King by Alfred Jarry directed by Nick Cooke (Year 3 Drama student)
2008 Stand or Fall written and directed by Brian Woolland
2009 The Convict’s Opera by Stephen Jeffreys directed by Bethan Clark with co-direction, design and music by Year 2 students.

Producer of documentary films about this work:
2006 Oh What a Lovely War – the prisoner experience of prison theatre
2007 Lessons from the Prison – the student experience of prison theatre.
2008 From Page to Stage – Stand or Fall documenting the writing and staging of a show for male prisoners and students.
All documentaries made by LaunchPad Productions

Awards Won by Playing for Time Theatre Company

2008 The MacJannet Prize (Talloires Network) for student work in the context of Global Citizenship
2008 Koestler Award for Stand or Fall

2009 Annie McKean awarded an MBE for Services to Higher Education

Research Interests

Community and Applied Drama/Theatre, Drama and Theatre in Education

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Member of National Drama and NATD, The Howard League for Penal Reform, The Prison Reform Trust, Anne Peaker – Arts in Criminal Justice system.