Lee and Bob are the Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company. They have been working as research partners for nearly 20 years and gained the UKs first joint practice as research PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. The practical element of the PhD, in which they were re-married at Sandbach service station, is featured as a case study in Baz Kershaw’s book Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (2010). They also have a listing in the PARIP DVD catalogue Practice as Research in Performance and Screen (Allegue et al, 2009), and chapters in Research Methods in the Social Sciences (Somekh and Lewin, 2011), and Blood, Sweat and Theory: Research through Practice in Performance (Freeman, 2010).
Their research practice has since been widely shown through their performative interventions and writing, with interests investigating, amongst other things, subjects such as non-place, spectatorship, the domestic and companionship. They are currently based in Devon, both working at Plymouth University.