GEORGE BELLIVEAU is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Prince Edward Island where he teaches Creative Arts. He is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the Theatre Department at the University of British Columbia. His dissertation focuses on Canadian drama, in particular Sharon Pollock's use of the memory play.
ALBERT-REINER GLAAP studied English Language and Literature, Latin and Philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and London (King's College), graduated from Cologne University in 1956, Dr. Pphil. (Cologne University 1955); taught at various schools in Germany and the USA from 1958 to 1971; Director of the Düsseldorf Teacher Training College 1971-1973; since 1973 Universitätsprofessor at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf; Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) since 1991; board member of Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft, Düsseldorf since 1998; member of Advisory Council of the Association for Canadian Studies in German- Speaking Countries (1994-2000). Special fields of research: Modern English and Canadian literature, contemporary drama and theatre in England, Canada and New Zealand; the teaching of English literature at secondary school and university level; theory and practice of literary translation.
SHERRILL GRACE is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on contemporary literature and culture, with books on Margaret Atwood, Malcolm Lowry, Expressionism, and the Canadian North. Her most recent books are the co-edited volume Staging the North: Twelve Canadian Plays and the critical monograph Canada and the Idea of North. She is currently co-editing a volume of critical essays on Canadian theatre with Albert-Reiner Glaap, and she has begun research for a biography of Sharon Pollock.
EDWARD LITTLE is Associate Professor of Theatre at Concordia University where he coordinates the Specialization in Theatre and Development. He is also Co-Artistic Director of Montreal's Teesri Duniya Theatre and Executive Editor for Theatre.Cultural Diversity and the Stage.
JANE MOSS is the Robert E. Diamond Professor of French and Women's Studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She has published widely on Canadian francophone and French theatre. A past President of the American Council for Québec Studies, she has served as Managing Editor of its journal Québec Studies since 1995. She also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Canadian Studies, the French Review, the American Review of Canadian Studies, and Canadian Literature.
ANNE NOTHOF is a professor of English at Athabasca University, Alberta, a distance education institution for which she has written courses in Canadian drama, theatre history, women in literature, and post-colonial literatures. For twelve years, she co-produced and hosted a weekly radio programme on drama for CKUA in Edmonton. She has published widely on modern British and Canadian drama, including "Canadian Ethnic Theatre: Fracturing the Mosaic" in Siting the Other: Re-visions of Marginality in Australian and English- Canadian Drama (2001). For NeWest Press she has edited Ethnicities: Plays from the New West, and plays by David Belke and Chris Craddock, and for Guernica she has edited a collection of essays on Sharon Pollock (2000). She is on the advisory board for the Encyclopedia of Canadian Drama on the WWW, and president of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research.
PATRICK B. O'NEILL is the Director of Research and International Liaison Officer at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. He has written on various aspects of Canadian theatre history and is currently researching a book on the history of theatre in Halifax.
JERRY WASSERMAN is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia, and editor of Modern Canadian Plays (Talonbooks). His articles on Canadian theatre have appeared in Modern Drama, Essays in Theatre, Theatre Research in Canada, Essays on Canadian Writing, and elsewhere. He is a long-time theatre critic for CBC radio, and his acting includes a recent appearance in the television movie, the reunion of L.A. Law.
CYNTHIA ZIMMERMAN is a professor of English at Glendon College, of York University, where she teaches courses on contemporary women playwrights, Autobiography and Drama, and Canadian theatre. Her articles and reviews on Canadian drama have appeared in a range of publications. She is co-author with Robert Wallace of The Work: Conversations with English- Canadian Playwrights; co-editor with Hersh Zeifman of Contemporary British Drama, 1970-1990; editor of Taking the Stage: Selections from Plays by Canadian Women; and author of Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada. Most recently she served as the omnibus reviewer of drama for "Letters in Canada," the University of Toronto Quarterly annual survey of publications.