BRUCE BARTON is an educator, playwright, director, and dramaturg who has taught for the past ten years at universities in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. In the Fall of 2001 he will begin a new position in playwriting and dramaturgy at the University of Toronto with the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and U. of T. at Mississauga. His research interests include Canadian dramaturgy and playwriting, particularly as they intersect with cinema adaptation. Forthcoming book projects include an anthology of Maritimes playwriting and a critical history of 20th Century Maritimes theatre practice (for which he has received SSHRC funding), both to be published by Playwrights Canada Press. His most recent full-length play, Roswell, will be staged in Halifax in May 2001 and will be included in the next edition of New Canadian Drama from Borealis Press.
FRANCINE CHAÎNÉ est professeure agrégée à l'École des arts visuels de l'Université Laval où elle enseigne l'art dramatique–théâtre aux étudiants du baccalauréat et les arts visuels aux étudiants à la maîtrise.
ADRIAN FOWLER is Professor of English and Principal, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook.
JAMES HOFFMAN is Professor of Theatre at University College of the Cariboo, Kamloops, British Columbia. He has published articles on the theatre history of British Columbia in various journals and written a biography of George Ryga. At present he is editing an anthology of British Columbia plays for Playwrights Canada Press, plus an anthology of Ryga's stage plays for Talonbooks.
GEORGE MANN is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge. His present research interests are focused on the history of theatre in southern Alberta, and on the theatrical careers of the E. G. Sterndale Bennetts.
DON PERKINS is Research Associate for the Edmonton Professional Theatre Project, a theatre history project attached to the Department of English, University of Alberta. He is a long-time reviewer, student and teacher of Canadian drama and theatre.
GREGORY J. REID teaches English and Comparative Canadian Literature at the Université de Sherbrooke. His recent publications include "The Worlds Within Worlds of Vittorio Rossi" in Canadian Theatre Review, "David Fennario Turned Rhapsodist: The Re-birth of the Author in Performance" in Essays in Theatre / Études Théâtrales, and "Constructing English-Quebec Ethnicity: Colleen Curran's Something Drastic and Josée Legault's L'invention d'une minorité: Les Anglos-Québécois" in Post Identity. He is also a co-editor/compiler of The Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Québécois and Foreign Literatures / Bibliographie d'études comparées en littératures canadienne, québécoise et étrangères.
JONATHAN RITTENHOUSE is a Professor of Drama and Vice President at Bishop's University, and is editor of Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/ Revue d'études des Cantons de l'Est. He is a member of both le conseil scientifique for L'Annuaire théâtral and the Editorial Board of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada. His present research interests are the study of cultural spaces in Quebec and English-language theatre in Quebec.
ALVINA RUPRECHT is Associate Professor of French at Carleton University. Her research and publications focus on Quebec theatre as well as the French and Creole speaking theatres of Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyane. She is a regular theatre reviewer for CBC Ottawa.
CATHERINE SMITH teaches at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus Drama Program. She also acts, directs and produces for theatre, film and television in Toronto, Vancouver and New York.