ALVINA RUPRECHT is Associate Professor of Theatre and Francophone Literatures at Carleton University. Her research deals with theatres in Quebec and the Franco/Creole speaking Caribbean, and she has published articles in Canada, France, Germany, and Great Britain. She contributed a chapter to the volume on Quebec theatre 1975-1995 published by les Archives des Lettres Canadiennes, Université d'Ottawa. She recently edited an issue of the Annuaire Théâtral dealing with new perspectives on Caribbean theatres, and her book on the Francophone/Créolophone theatres of the Caribbean will soon be published by l'Harmattan (Paris). She is a regular theatre reviewer on CBC.
GEORGE BELLIVEAU is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Prince Edward Island where he teaches Creative Arts. He is a PhD candidate in the Theatre Department at the University of British Columbia and his dissertation focuses on Canadian Drama, in particular Sharon Pollock's use of the memory play.
CHRISTINE BOYKO-HEAD is an adjunct professor for the Creative Arts in Learning Masters of Education Program at Lesley University, Cambridge Massachusetts. She has contributed an essay on Laura Secord advertisements to Slippery Pastimes: A Popular Culture Reader published by Wilfred Laurier UP in 2002. She and her family reside in Dunnville Ontario.
PIET DEFRAEYE teaches in the Drama Department of the University of Alberta, and also acts as the department's Graduate Coordinator. He has published on Atlantic and Quebec theatre in various journals and collections (in English and French), and combines his interest in Canadian theatre with critical work on Contemporary European Theatre and Dramaturgy. He is presently involved in an extensive research project on Michel Marc Bouchard. Aside from his more academic duties, he frequently directs. His latest directorial project is a full-scale production of Heinrich von Kleist's Amphitryon in Edmonton. With Ilkay Silk, he is the co-founder and co-organizer of the Atlantic University and Community Theatre Festival. He has been actively involved in the governance of the academy, especially through his work with Faculty Associations.
ROSALIND KERR is an Assistant Professor of Dramatic Theory in the Drama Department of the University of Alberta. She is co-editor of Staging Alternative Albertas: Experimental Edmonton Drama, which is being published by Canadian Playwrights Press in 2002. In addition to her publications on new Canadian works, she is preparing a book on female embodiment on the Commedia dell'Arte stage.
DAVID GARDNER is an Honorary Member of the Association for Canadian Research, and has been an award-winning professional actor and director for over 50 years. He obtained his doctorate in Canadian theatre history from the University of Toronto in 1983 and has taught at the Graduate Center for Study of Drama and University College (U of T), York University, the National Theatre School, and George Brown College.
GLEN NICHOLS teaches Canadian and Dramatic Literature in the English Department at the Université de Moncton. He has recently published From Around the World and At Home: Translations and Adaptations in Canadian Theatre, and is currently working on an anthology of Acadian plays in translation.
DON PERKINS teaches for the English and Drama Departments at University of Alberta. He has been Research Associate on the Edmonton Professional Theatre Project for the past five years, helping gather archival collections of many Edmonton professional theatres from the early 1970s.
GREGORY J. REID teaches in the English and Intercultural Studies and Comparative Canadian Literature programs of the Université de Sherbrooke. He is one of the co-editors of The Bibliography of Comparative Studies in Canadian, Québec, and Foreign Literatures (Sherbrooke: GGC, 2001). He is also the author of A Re-examination of Tragedy and Madness in Eight Selected Plays from the Greeks to the 20th Century (QC: Topeda Hill, 2002) and The Cunning to be Strange, a collection of short stories (QC: Topeda Hill, 2002).
SHELLEY SCOTT is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dramatic Arts at the University of Lethbridge. Her article "Collective Creation and The Changing Mandate of Nightwood Theatre" appeared in TRIC (Vol. 18 No. 2) in Fall 1997.