Macintosh moved to King's College, London for her PhD in classics and comparative literature, which was awarded in 1990.

[1] Macintosh was a lecturer in English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London until 2000, when she moved to Oxford as senior research fellow at the APGRD.

[6] Macintosh frequently appears on discussion panels and at public events to examine the re-staging of Greek drama today, such as at the York Festival of Ideas in 2018,[7] speaking at the SAS in 2016,[8] debating at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015,[9] the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014.

[11][12] Macintosh will deliver the 2018-19 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities on 17 May 2019 at the University of Chicago.

[13] Macintosh has been at the forefront of exploring the potential of presenting research in interactive multimedia ebooks, publishing performance histories that showcase digitised archival material and newly commissioned films, art, audio and audio-visual material.