Molly Pope entered the world in upstate New York and shortly thereafter migrated to the Greater Pittsburgh area with her parents, Chip and Cindy, and older sister Sarah. Her childhood was spent almost entirely in a swimming pool where she hoped to soak up enough chlorine to make the Olympics. Upon climbing out of the pool at age 15 she immediately tripped and fell onto a stage. Following four years of performing in community and high school theater, she moved to New York City to attend New York University.
While at NYU Molly studied at the Stella Adler Studio, Experimental Theatre Wing, and Viewpoints Studio and graduated with an honors BFA in Drama. New York stage roles include the Young Woman in Machinal, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Desiree in A Little Night Music, and Maria in Twelfth Night: The Drinking Game. In regional theater she has played Jackie in Murder on the Nile, multiple roles in the regional premiere of Almost, Maine (both with Cortland Repertory Theater), and Roz in Moon Over Buffalo (Cider Mill Playhouse). On camera work includes Secrets of the Mystic Oracle (Evil City Film Festival), the webseries Four if by Space (http://4ifbyspace.net/), a Papa John’s Pizza commercial, Sundance Channel promotional, and Bristol-Myers Squibb industrial.
In the fall of 2007 Molly hurled herself into the New York cabaret scene with her critically acclaimed debut show, The Diva-lution of Molly Pope, at Don’t Tell Mama. She has also appeared as a guest star in the MAC award-winning cabaret show Matt Sigl: Unstuck in Time and has been a performer and judge for Overnight Sensation with the Native Aliens Theatre Collective. She is a member of Dreamscape Theater and The Dorothy Parker Society.