MARK BLAGRAVE is Director of Drama at Mount Allison University, where he teaches in the English Department and in the Drama Programme, writes, and directs plays.
CÉLESTE DERKSEN is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her research interests include Canadian Drama (19th and 20th Centuries), particularly women playwrights/performers, solo performance forms and feminist theories of performance.
TIBOR EGERVARI est professeur au département de théâtre de l'Université d'Ottawa. Il a enseigné à l'École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada. Il a été formé à Strasbourg. Il s'intéresse à la relation Public-Théâtre.
ALAIN FOURNIER est comédien, metteur en scène, et auteur dramatique. Il est professeur au département de théâtre de l'Université du Québec à Montréal.
RENÉE HULAN is a SSHRCC doctoral fellow at McGill University where she is completing a dissertation on how gender and national identity intersect in Canadian literature depicting the north.
RICHARD BRUCE KIRKLEY has written several articles on the relationships between theatre and television for Canadian Theatre Review, Modem Drama, and Theatre and Television. He is currently working on a full-length study of John Hirsch's role in the development of Canadian theatre and television. He teaches theatre history, acting and Shakespeare in performance for the Theatre Department, University College of the Fraser Valley.
JEANNE KLEIN is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas where she directs Theatre for Young People. In addition to directing Crying to Laugh, she has directed Gilles Gauthier's I Am a Bear! and Alf Silver's More of a Family. Her reviews of Canadian children's plays and theatre festivals have been published in ASSITEJ/USA's TYA Today and the Youth Theatre Journal. She recently served as editor of the Youth Theatre Journal for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
J. PERCY SMITH is Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of Guelph. He is currently General Editor of The Correspondence of Bemard Shaw, a series of volumes to be published by the University of Toronto Press beginning in the Spring of 1995, and editor of The Correspondence of Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, a volume in the same series.
RÉMI TOURANGEAU est professeur de littérature et de théâtre au Départment de français à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Membre fondateur de la Société d'histoire du théâtre du Québec (1976) et ex-président de cette Société, il s'intéresse particulièrement à l'histoire et à la sociologie du théâtre et du spectacle. Auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur le théâtre québécois et les fêtes populaires, il dirige, depuis 1979, diverses équipes de recherche subventionnée dans les domaines du théâtre régional, du parathéâtre au Canada français et du théâtre historique dans les pays francophones. À partir de 1990, il a entrepris un vaste programme de recherche au Québec, en Ontario et au Nouveau-Brunswick intitulé "Étude des formes de spectacles populaires au Canada français (XX~ siècle)."