Contributors

PAUL DENHAM, born and raised in Ontario, now teaches Canadian literature at the University of Saskatchewan, and is a member of the editorial committee of NeWest Review.

PAULETTE COLLET est professeur titulaire à l'Université de Toronto. Elle a publié plusieurs ouvrages et des articles sur la littérature francophone au Canada, et sur les romanciers français qui ont été inspirés par le Canada.

CHRISTOPHER INNES, Co-Editor of Modern Drama, is Professor of English at York University and General Editor of the 'Directors in Perspective' series for Cambridge University Press. Among his recent publications is Politics and the Playwright: George Ryga, the first volume in 'The Canadian Dramatist' series (Simon and Pierre) of which he is also General Editor. His latest work, Modern British Drama: 1880-1990, is to be published by Cambridge University Press in 1991.

MOIRA DAY holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta where she is conducting research on Alberta theatre history. A graduate of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, she has published articles and reviews on a variety of Canadian theatre topics, particularly Western Canadian theatre. She is currently working on an anthology of plays by Elsie Park Gowan and a biography of Elizabeth Sterling Haynes.

ALAN FILEWOD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Guelph, and is Editor of Canadian Theatre Review.

DAVID GARDNER is a professional actor, director, teacher and Canadian theatre historian. In addition to television and film appearances he has performed with many theatres including Stratford, the Old Vic, Tarragon and Necessary Angel. In the 1960s he produced drama for CBC Television and was later Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse and Theatre Officer for the Canada Council. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Toronto and has taught at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and University College, University of Toronto.

REID GILBERT teaches English, with a special interest in drama, at Capilano College. He is the author of several articles on Canadian literature and drama and has presented papers on drama and popular culture at conferences. He is member of the Board of Directors of Tamahnous Theatre, Vancouver.

BILL GLASSCO founded the Tarragon Theatre in 1971 and was its Artistic Director until 1982. In 1985 he became Artistic Director of Toronto's CentreStage Company, and in 1988 Producing Co-Artistic Director of the Canadian Stage Company, formed from the merger of CentreStage and The Toronto Free Theatre. He is best known for his productions of Canadian work, notably the plays of David French, Michel Tremblay, and George F. Walker. He recently directed his first production in French, Wilde's L'Importance d'être Fidèle, for Quebec City's Théâtre du Trident.

CHARLES HAINES is Professor of English at Carleton University and a performing-arts critic for CBC Radio in Ottawa. He is the author of several biographies, a life of Shakespeare among them, and a number of critical articles, including pieces on several of the Shakespeare plays. He has appeared in and directed both amateur and professional shows.

FRANCESS G HALPENNY is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, and General Editor Emeritus, Dictionary of Canadian Biography; she was a member of the Management Board of Theatre History in Canada/Histoire du théâtre au Canada /p>in its first year.

STEPHEN JOHNSON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama, McMaster University. He acted as Assistant Editor and Research Associate for the Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre, and is the author of The Roof Gardens of Broadway Theatres, 1883-1942.

RICHARD PERKYNS is a Professor and drama specialist in the English Department at Saint Mary's University, Halifax. Among his publications is The Neptune Story. He is also editor of Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre, 1934-1984 (1984) and co-editor of Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian (1981).

NATALIE REWA is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama at Queen's University. As an Editor of Canadian Theatre Review she has recently produced issues on Ethnicity, Adolescence and Theatre, and the Mediation of the Arts through Theatre.