Christine Molloy

Christine Molloy, is a UK-based artist known for her works of theatre, interactive art, and film.

Molloy was born in Dublin, Ireland.

[1] She studied theatre in the late 1980s at Dartington College of Arts, UK, alongside her partner Joe Lawlor,[1] both graduating in 1992.

Molloy and Lawlor have together made works of theatre, interactive art, and film, as creative partnership Desperate Optimists,[1] which also became the name of their production company.

[2] In a 2016 article in Sight and Sound, Sophie Mayer described their filmmaking process as 'a unique merging of community arts (with months spent developing relationships and stories) and vérité documentary'.