Harriet Reed
Harriet Reed is an Assistant Curator in the Theatre and Performance Department at the V&A. She is the Communications Officer for the UK Society for Theatre Research and a committee member of SIBMAS (International Association of Performing Arts Collections). As Assistant Curator in the V&A Theatre and Performance Department she contributed towards the exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 and co-curated Censored! Stage, Screen, Society at 50. She has recently co-curated the major exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser.

Contact Email Address: h.reed@vam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- 18th century theatre history
- Theatrical celebrity and fine art/decorative arts
- History of theatre censorship
- Irish theatre history
- 20th century musicals
- Stephen Sondheim
- Costume for musicals
- The ‘diva’ and history of women in performance