REID GILBERT is a College Professor in the Department of English at Capilano College, Vancouver, Canada. He has published a play, articles and reviews in Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, Theatre History in Canada, Essays in Theatre, Theatre Research International, Modern Drama, Studies in Canadian Literature and Theatre Journal as well as articles on popular culture. He has read papers at ACTR/ARTC, ASTR and IFTR/FIRT. He has just published Barnet and Gilbert, A Short Guide to Writing Essays about Literature (Addison-Wesley, 1997). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Canadian Theatre Review and Theatre Research in Canada.
SUSAN BENNETT is a specialist in theory, film and performance in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Her book Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past was published by Routledge in 1996 and a second, revised edition of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Reception will be available, also from Routledge, in Fall 1997.
MARCIA BLUMBERG is a Research Fellow in the Department of Literature at the Open University, England, where she is working on a SSHRCC Postdoctoral Fellowship on representations and stagings of AIDS. She has published extensively on South African theatre and other contemporary drama. She is co-editing with Dennis Walder a book, South African Theatre As/And Intervention.
LOUISE FORSYTH holds a BA from the University of Saskatchewan, and an MA and PhD from the University of Western Ontario. She currently holds the rank of Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and is Associate Member in the Departments of Drama and French. She is a former President of the Association of Canadian Theatre History and has been Secretary of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research during 1996-96. Her areas of research specialization are theatre history in francophone Canada, feminist theatre in francophone and anglophone Canada, literature of France and Québec, women writers of Québec, and feminist theory in France, Canada and the USA. She has taught and published in these areas.
FRANCESS G. HALPENNY is General Editor Emeritus, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. She was a member of the Village Players, and has been for many years a member of the Alumnae Theatre in Toronto.
DENIS JOHNSTON is Co-Director of the Academy of the Shaw Festival, and formerly taught theatre history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Up the Mainstream: The Rise of Toronto's Alternative Theatres, 1968-1975.
DON KERR teaches English at the University of Saskatchewan. He had a play, Lanc, performed at Greystone theatre, Saskatoon, in 1996 and has a book of poems, Autodidactic, forthcoming from Brick books.
ROSALIND KERR teaches in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta, having completed a postdoctoral SSHRC fellowship at the University of Toronto. She is preparing book length studies on the first Female Performers in the Commedia dell'Arte and on the first great diva, Isabella Andreini. She also works on contemporary Canadian theatre and has recently published articles in Modern Drama.
ROBERT NUNN teaches dramatic literature, theatre history and critical theory at Brock University. He has published articles on Canadian drama in various journals, including Theatre History in Canada / Histoire du théâtre au Canada, Canadian Theatre Review and Theatrum. He co-edited Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada from 1993 to 1996.
PATRICK B. O'NEILL is a professor in the Department of Speech and Drama at Mount Saint Vincent University. He has published extensively on Canadian theatre history, and is currently researching the history of theatre in Halifax.
ANTHONY M. WATANABE est étudiant de doctorat au Département d'Études françaises à l'Université de Toronto où il prépare une thèse sur la réception des aspects métathéâtraux du théâtre d' Albert Camus. Au Centre Sablé des Etudes Romantiques, il travaille sur un index thématique de la collection de théâtre qui sera publié sur l'Internet.