JIM AIKENS wrote his Ph.D. Dissertation on 19th-century Toronto theatre and spent eight years as a theatre archivist.
DENIS CARRIER, étudiant de troisième cycle à l'Université Laval, poursuit ses recherches sur le Théâtre National Français de Montréal de 1900 à 1954. Il a publié une Bibliographie analytique d'Yves Thériault, 1940-1984 et participe au projet 'Correspondance de Louis Fréchette,' sous la direction de Jacques Blais.
L.W. CONOLLY is Professor and Chairman, Department of Drama, University of Guelph. He has recently published Theatrical Touring and Founding in North America, and edited Modern Canadian Drama: Some Critical Perspectives (1985). He is co-editing (with Eugene Benson) the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre.
ALAN FILEWOD is Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph, Department of Drama, and author of Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada. He has recently been appointed Editor of Canadian Theatre Review.
HOWARD FINK teaches in the Centre for Broadcasting Studies at Concordia University, where his work has been significant in building the University's extensive radio drama collection. He has a number of publications in radio drama and Canadian theatre, and was a founding member of ASCRT/AERT.
JEFFREY GOFFIN teaches Developmental Drama and Theatre History in the Department of Drama at the University of Calgary. He is a graduate of Brock University and the University of Calgary, receiving his M.A. in Dramatic Literature with a thesis entitled 'Documentary Drama: A Canadian Perspective.' He has had plays for young people produced in Alberta and Ontario, and has written on Athol Fugard, Popular Theatre and Canadian / South-African relations. He is currently engaged in a study of Canadian productions of African drama.
JAMES HOFFMAN is a theatre instructor at East Kootenay Community College in Cranbrook, B.C. He is currently writing a biography of George Ryga.
ALEXANDER LEGGATT is Professor of English at University College, University of Toronto. His publications include Shakespeare's Comedy of Love, Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art, and numerous articles and reviews on Renaissance English drama and modern Canadian drama.
BARBARA MCEWEN is a member of the Department of Romance Studies at Brock University. She received her doctorate from the Université de Lille, and has published chiefly in the area of Quebec drama. She has recently become Book Review Editor for publications in French for Theatre History in Canada/ Histoire du Théâtre au Canada.
MARIEL O'NEILL-KARCH enseigne la littérature québécoise à l'Université de Toronto et fait de la critique de théâtre sur les ondes de CJBC (Toronto). Elle a publié des articles sur le théâtre de Marie-Claire Blais ainsi que sur le théâtre québécois joué à Toronto.
MICHAEL PETERMAN is with the Department of English at Trent University and is editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies. His study Robertson Davies (1986) is part of the Twayne World Authors Series.
WILLIAM C. REEVE is Associate Professor in the Department of German, Queen's University. His publications include monographs on Georg Büchner and Heinrich von Kleist.
JERRY WASSERMAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and editor of Modem Canadian Plays. Also a professional actor, he can be seen weekly on the Fox Television Network in The New Adventures of Beans Baxter.
RENATE USMIANI is Professor in the Department of English, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, and founding Artistic Director of The Mount Playhouse. She has written books and articles on Canadian theatre and published on modem European drama in Germany and the U.S. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre and the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre.