JENNIFER HARVIE is a lecturer in the Department of Drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research is in contemporary theatre and theory, particularly gender theory, and postcolonial and intercultural theory. She has published previously in Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada, Canadian Theatre Research, Essays in Theatre, and collections on contemporary drama.
JOHN A. HAWKINS teaches theatre history in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
ERIN HURLEY is a PhD candidate in Theatre at the City University of New York Graduate Center and is writing her dissertation on contemporary québécois performance.
RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES teaches drama and is a founding member of the Centre for Cultural Studies/centre d'etudes sur la culture at the University of Guelph. He has published on Canadian Theatre, Shakespeare, and pedagogy in a variety of books and periodicals, is an editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and is on the editorial boards of Essays in Theatre/Etudes théâtrales and Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada.
WARREN LINDS is a doctoral student in the Department of Language Education at the University of British Columbia where he is undertaking research on the facilitation of transformative theatre workshops. He has been working in popular theatre and community education for the past 17 years with students through Theatre of the Oppressed on racism and has been training new teacher-facilitators in the process.
CARRIE LOFFREE is a doctoral candidate at the Centre de recherche en littérature québécoise at the Université Laval. She has worked as conference coordinator and assistant to the Artistic Director at the Montreal experimental theatre festival, Vingt Jours du théâtre a risque, and she teaches Quebec theatre history in the French Department at Concordia University. Her research is in experimental theatre in Quebec and cyber culture, and she has published in such journals as Nuit blanche and L'Annuaire théâtral.
LAWRENCE O'FARRELL is Professor of Drama and Coordinator of Continuing Education at the Faculty of Education, Queen's University. He has published extensively on various aspects of drama education and has presented at conferences throughout Canada and the United States as well as in several other countries. He chairs the Research Committee of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association. He is co-manager and academic coordinator of a consortium that has been contracted to write secondary school Arts curriculum policy for the Ontario Ministry of Education.
DIANE SAINT-JACQUES est professeur au Département de didactique â l'Université de Montréal où elle assume les cours de didactique de l'art dramatique au primaire. Elle a publié des études sur le processus créateur, notamment l'engagement créatif et le processus de production en art dramatique.
SHELLEY SCOTT received her PhD from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto in 1997. Her article "Collective Creation and the Changing Mandate of Nightwood Theatre" appeared in Vol. 18.2 of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada. She currently holds a term appointment as an assistant professor with the Division of Theatre and Dramatic Arts at the University of Lethbridge.