PATRICIA BADIR is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She is presently working on a book-length study of Tudor civic entertainments and the production of urban space in the North of England though she maintains a research interest in Canadian drama.
SUSAN BENNETT is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary where she specializes in theory, film and performance. She is the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (Routledge 1990) and Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past (Routledge 1996).
MARK BLAGRAVE, a graduate of the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, is Director of the Drama Programme at Mount Allison University.
PER BRASK teaches at the University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Drama.
KATHY CHUNG is a second year doctoral student at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. She has a BASc. in Civil Engineering, a BA in English and Theatre, and a MA in English from the University of British Columbia. She was Production Manager for the 1995 F.O.O.T. festival and has stage managed on an amateur basis.
JEAN-GUY CÔTÉ enseigne le théâtre et la littérature au Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue où il participe aux travaux du Groupe de recherche sur le théâtre en Abitibi-Témiscamingue et où il assume la direction artistique de la compagnie professionnelle La Poudrerie.
TIBOR EGERVARI est professeur au département de Théâtre de l'Université d'Ottawa. Formé comme metteur en scène à Strasbourg, il a enseigné à l'École nationale de Théâtre du Canada et a dirigé pendant 14 ans le plus ancien théâtre populaire de France, le Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang. Il s'intéresse à la mise en scène, à son enseignement et à la relation Public Théâtre.
PETER FELDMAN teaches Acting, Directing and Scriptwriting at Brock University. He has taught at five other universities and colleges, including the graduate theatre programme at Columbia University. As well, he has directed in New York, the Netherlands, Britain, Toronto and Vancouver. He has been published in Drama Contact, Theatrum, Canadian Theatre Review, and The Drama Review, and has been written about in three books on the theatre.
JOSETTE FÉRAL est professeure au départment de Théâtre de l'Université du Québec à Montréal et vice-présidente de la Fédération internationale pour la recherche théâtrale. Elle se consacre à l'analyse de la représentation théâtrale et s'intéresse tout particulièrement aux pratiques théâtrales actuelles et aux théories du jeu.
ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Drama at the University of Guelph. He is presently working on a book on theatre and trade unions.
FELIX (FIL) FRASER has been a life-long journalist, a radio and television program director and administrator, and a television and feature film producer. Between 1989 and 1992, he served a three-year term as Chief Commissioner of the Alberta Human Rights Commission. He was invested as a Member of The Order of Canada in 1991.
DAVID GARDNER is an Honorary Member of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research and a professional actor who recently appeared in the Robocop TV series. He obtained his doctorate in Canadian theatre history from the University of Toronto and has taught at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University College (U of T), York University, the National Theatre School and George Brown College.
MAYTE GÓMEZ is a theatre artist and writer. A graduate of York University in Toronto and the University of Guelph, she presently lives in Montréal, where she is writing her first play and pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at McGill's Graduate Program in Communications. She is presently researching cultural production during the Spanish Civil War.
JENNIFER HARVIE is a Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a doctoral candidate in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include feminist and gender theory, postcolonial theory, and contemporary theatre. Theatre Research in Canada has previously published her article on Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets and her collaboration with Ric Knowles, "Dialogic Monologue: A Dialogue."
JAMES HOFFMAN teaches theatre at the University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, B.C. His research interest is British Columbia theatre. Recent major publications include a biocritical essay in The George Ryga Papers, published by the University of Calgary Press, and a book, The Ecstasy of Resistance, A Biography of George Ryga, published by ECW Press. This October, he spoke at the International Festival of Authors, at Harbourfront in Toronto.
CHRIS JOHNSON is Professor of Theatre, Chair of the Theatre Programme, and Artistic Director of the Black Hole Theatre at the University of Manitoba. Recent work includes an article on canonicity and Canadian drama in Contemporary Issues in Canadian Drama, a piece on the plays of Carol Shields in Prairie Fire, and a Black Hole/Prairie Theatre Exchange co-production of George F. Walker's Tough!.
HEATHER JONES is currently teaching in the University Program at Eastern College, Burin, Newfoundland. She is completing a study of the cultural contexts of nineteenth-century verse drama.
RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES, Chair of the Drama Department at University of Guelph, has published chapters and articles on Canadian theatre and on Shakespeare in a variety of books and periodicals. He is currently at work on a book "The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies."
BERNARD LAVOIE est metteur en scène, conseiller dramaturgique et traducteur. Il travaille à sa thèse de doctorat: "Arthur Miller in Montreal: cultural transfer of American plays in Québec" et est professeur invité au département de Théâtre de l'Université d'Ottawa depuis l'automne 1995.
JEAN LEVASSEUR est responsable de la section "Études québécoises" de son département à l'Université Bishop's de Lennoxville, au Québec. Il est l'auteur de nombreux articles en stylistique argumentative, et a publié des études sur des écrivains acadiens et québécois contemporains. Il est membre du comité éditorial de la Revue francophone de Louisiane et de la Revue d'Études des cantons de l'Est.
ANDRÉ LOISELLE, who wrote his PhD dissertation on film adaptations of Canadian plays, teaches in the Department of Film & Video at the University of Regina. He has published articles on theatre and film in such journals as Essays in Theatre, L'Annuaire théâtral, Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Québec Studies. He has recently co-edited (with Prof. Brian McIlroy) a book on cinéaste Denys Arcand.
DENYSE LYNDE is Associate Professor of English, drama specialist, at Memorial University, where she recently directed a production of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer with a cast of professionals, amateurs, students and faculty.
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.
NATALIE REWA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at Queen's University. She has contributed articles to Theatre History in Canada / Histoire du théâtre au Canada, Themes in Drama, tessera, and Canadian Theatre Review. She is the editor of Canadian Theatre Review.
JONATHAN RITTENHOUSE is a Professor in the Drama Department at Bishop's University, where he teaches Canadian Drama and Shakespeare. His research interests include English-language theatre in Québec and Elizabethan theatre and drama. He has been editor of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies since 1992.
DIANE SAINT-JACQUES est professeure au département de didactique de l'Université de Montréal où elle assume plus particulièrement les cours de didactique de l'art dramatique au primaire. Ses travaux portent sur l'expression créative en activités dramatiques.
G.B. SHAND teaches English and co-ordinates Drama Studies at Glendon College (York). He writes on early modem stagecraft, and his main current interest is in actorly reading of Elizabethan scripts. He also leads text workshops, often at Equity Showcase with Kate Lynch, and has assisted on numerous professional productions including, most recently, King Lear (Necessary Angel), and Measure for Measure (Equity Showcase).
RICHARD SUTHERLAND currently edits the ACTR/ARTC Newsletter/Bulletin de Liaison and conducts playgoing seminars with the University of British Columbia Department of Continuing Studies. Previous incarnations have included careers as actor and opera singer, as well as a co-founder of Troupe, an early Vancouver alternative theatre company.
CRAIG STEWART WALKER is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama at Queen's University. His article on Michael Cook's Colour the Flesh the Colour of Dust appeared in the previous issue of Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada.