DENISE AGIMAN est présentement inscrite au Doctorat en Études et Pratiques des Arts (Ph.D.) à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. En 1997, elle a gagné le Prix de la Recherche de la Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche Théâtrale pour le meilleur essai sur l'interculturalisme théâtral. Elle est boursière du Fond Interculturel de l'UQAM--du FCAR, de la Fondation du Maire de Saint-Laurent, du PAFARC, de la Fondation UQAM, du Ministère des Relations Internationales du Québec, du Ministère des Communications d'Italie et de l'Ambassade d'Italie. Elle est fondatrice de la Compagnie Théâtrale La Ribalta, troupe à vocation interculturelle où elle a fait des mises en scène. Elle a joué au théâtre, au cinéma et à la télévision (La Locandiera, Les Belles Soeurs, etc.). Elle a été assistante de professeurs au Département de Théâtre de l'UQAM. Ses articles sont apparus dans Théâtre-Les Cahiers de la Maîtrise et L'Annuaire Théâtral. Depuis 1995, elle collabore avec la revue Hystrio (Italie), en écrivant des articles sur le théâtre québécois et anime une émission culturelle hebdomadaire à la Radio Internationale de Montréal.
KATHY K.Y. CHUNG is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Her dissertation is on the plays of Sharon Pollock. She was the assistant editor for volume two of Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcom Lowry edited by Sherrill E. Grace and the illustrator and co-editor, with Sherrill Grace, of 'A Quiet Game' and Other Early Works by Margaret Atwood.
JESSICA GARDINER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores theatre as a social practice in Toronto during the 1890s. In addition, she is a graduate of Britain's Guildford School of Dance and Drama and continues to perform and work as an actor and director in professional and university theatre.
LAURIN MANN is an Alberta native who received a BA from the University of Lethbridge, an MFA in Acting at the University of Oregon, and her Ph.D at the University of Toronto. Trained in performance at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts and other theatre training institutions, Laurin pursued a professional acting career for ten years, performing in such theatres as the Thousand Islands Playhouse (Gananoque, ON), the Red Barn Theatre (Simcoe, ON) and Toronto Free Theatre. She also works as a freelance director and choreographer. Laurin has taught at Lane Community College in Oregon, the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) and Queen's University (Kingston, ON). Her scholarship has been published in the Canadian Theatre Review and the Canadian Encyclopedia.
DENISE S. McCONNEY is the single parent of a seven-year-old girl. She has an HBA (Literature) and an M.A. (Canadian Studies) from Carleton University. She has been teaching for the Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, both on campus and at distance sites since the fall of 1995. In the fall of 1998, she began her Ph.D. in English at the University of Saskatchewan with a specialization in Native Literatures.
PATRICK B. O'NEILL is Professor of Speech and Drama at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. He has written on various aspects of Canadian theatre history, and he is currently researching a book on the history of theatre in Halifax.
PAULA SPERDAKOS has been a teacher since 1970 and a professional director since 1975, working in educational institutions and theatres across Canada. Since 1990 she has been teaching acting and theatre history, and directing student productions at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. Her principal area of research is Canadian theatre history, and her particular research interest is in Canadian women theatre practitioners. She has published articles and book reviews in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, Essays in Theatre, Modern Drama, and Queen's Quarterly, and she is the Ann Saddlemyer Book Award-winning author of Dora Mavor Moore: Pioneer of the Canadian Theatre. Currently, she is writing a biography of the great Canadian actress, Kate Reid.
EVE IRENE THERRIEN is a doctoral student at New York University. She is pursuing an interdisciplinary program with the French department and Professor Richard Schechner of the Performance Studies department. Her paper, "Beckett and Québec: Je Me Souviens?" was presented at the 1999 ACSUS (The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States) conference in Pittsburgh, PA. For her thesis, she intends to continue her research in Québécois theatre.
PETER ELIOT WEISS recently received his Ph.D. from the Drama Centre at the University of Toronto. He is also a playwright and director. His best known works include Sex Tips for Modern Girls, The Haunted House Hamlet, Going Down for the Count, The Invisible Detective, Remembering Shanghai and FairyBlood. His directing credits include The Way of the World and The Bacchae at the University of British Columbia, Serpent in the Night Sky and Possible Worlds at Simon Fraser University, The Big Blue Bird for the New Play Centre, The Plague of the Gorgeous and The Reverse Transcriptease for Out West Performance Society and FairyBlood at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.