STEPHEN JOHNSON has been co-editor of Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada since 1992, and was Assistant Editor on The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. He has taught at the University of Guelph and McMaster University, and is presently Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.
BRUCE BARTON holds a doctorate from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He currently teaches drama, film studies, and literature at the University of Prince Edward Island, where he is the Faculty Chair of the UPEI Theatre Society. Bruce also works in University and Professional Theatre as a director, designer, and dramaturge, and has won a national playwriting award.
SCOTT DUCHESNE is currently a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He has written articles for Theatrum and Canadian Theatre Review. His paper "Mike is the Message: Performing the Common Sense Revolution," presented at the 1998 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, was awarded the Association for Canadian Theatre Research Robert Lawrence Prize.
CATHERINE GRAHAM holds a doctorate from McGill University. She currently teaches at the School of Art, Drama and Music at McMaster University.
JENNIFER HARVIE is a lecturer in Drama at Goldsmith's College, University of London. Her research interests include critical theories of performance, identification, and identity politics (particularly national and gender identities).
SHAWN HUFFMAN was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Quebec Studies in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the State University of New York -- Plattsburgh. He has published articles on Quebec theatre in several journals, including Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada, Protée and Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry.
SHEMINA KESHVANI is a doctoral student in the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the development of the use of film and video projections in theatre performance. She is also an actress, voice coach, publicist and make-up artist.
KATHRYN CHASE MERRETT is an independent scholar who lives and works in Edmonton. She is a subject editor for The Canadian Encyclopedia covering architecture, dance, film and theatre.
MARLENE MOSER recently defended her doctoral thesis, "Postmodern Feminist Readings of Identity in Selected Works of Judith Thompson, Margaret Hollingsworth, and Patricia Gruben" at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama in Toronto. In 1993, she co-founded F.O.O.T. (Festival of Original Theatre and Film), an arts festival/conference at the Drama Centre. This past year she taught at McMaster University where she also directed the fall major production, The Golden Age by Louis Nowra.
ED MULLALY, a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, has published widely on 19th century theatre. He has set up internet pages for Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada and the Candrama discussion forum, and is presently working on the Atlantic Canada Theatre Site, which includes searchable performance calendars, 19th century texts, sample copies of Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada, and Plant and Ball's recent bibliographies of Canadian Theatre [http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/].
DIANNE O'NEILL is Adjunct Curator, Prints and Drawings, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. She has served as curator on over thirty shows at the Gallery and has written extensively on Nova Scotia art and artists.
PATRICK O'NEILL is Professor of Speech and Drama at Mount Saint Vincent University. His major research interest is Canadian theatre and he is currently working on a history of theatre in Halifax.
JONATHAN RITTENHOUSE is Chair of the Drama Department of Bishop's University and Editor of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies / la Revue d'études des Cantons de l'Est.
SHELLEY SCOTT received her PhD from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto in 1997. Her thesis is entitled "Feminist Theory and Nightwood Theatre." In September 1998 she will be starting an eight-month term as assistant professor with the division of Theatre and Dramatic Arts at the University of Lethbridge.
MARY ELIZABETH SMITH is a Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She has published books and articles in her fields of interest, especially the drama of Christopher Marlowe and the personnel of the Blackfriars theatre, and extensively on the theatre history of Atlantic Canada. Currently she is researching connections between ways of reading biblical text and ways of reading women in literature.