PAULETTE COLLET is Professor of French at the University of Toronto. She is the author of several books and articles on francophone literature in Canada.
LÉONARD E. DOUCETTE est professeur titulaire du français à l'Université de Toronto et Rédacteur adjoint de la revue, University of Toronto Quarterly. Auteur d'une monographie sur l'humanisme en France au XVIIe siècle, d'une autre sur le théâtre français du Canada depuis ses origines jusqu'en 1867, et d'une douzaine d'articles sur l'histoire littéraire du Canada, il travaille actuellement à un volume sur l'histoire de la dramaturgie québécoise depuis 1867.
ALAN FILEWOD is Assistant Professor of Drama at Queen's University. He recently completed his PhD thesis on Canadian documentary theatre for the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama and is currently collecting material for a history of agitprop in Canada.
DAVID M. HAYNE is Professor Emeritus of French, University of Toronto, and a former President of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
RAMON HATHORN est professeur agrégé à l'Université de Guelph. Il a publié de nombreux articles sur la littérature et l'histoire théâtrale du Québec. Depuis plusieurs années il poursuit des recherches sur la censure du théâtre à Toronto et à Montréal et prépare actuellement un manuscrit sur les nombreuses visites de Sarah Bernhardt au Canada.
STEPHEN JOHNSON teaches in the Drama Department of the University of Guelph. His book, The Roof Gardens of Broadway Theatres, 1883 to 1942, has just been published by UMI Research Press. He is a recent recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant to produce a calendar of performances in Wentworth, Wellington and Halton Counties, located in southern Ontario, for the period 1867 to 1939.
RICHARD PERKYNS is Professor and drama specialist in the English Department at Saint Mary's University, Halifax. He is editor of Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1939-1984 (1984) and co-editor of Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian (1981), and has worked extensively in Halifax community theatre.
JAMES REANEY teaches in the English Department of the University of Western Ontario. He has recently completed an opera libretto about the life at Sharon Temple for Harry Somers. A musical play about the Brontës with John Beckwith is currently being written.
DENIS SALTER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Calgary. He has written several articles on Canadian theatre history and has edited the anthology New Canadian Drama 3: Albertan Dramatists. Currently he is at work on a collection of essays on theatre criticism in Canada.
ALBERT WILLIAM TRUEMAN, now retired, was President of the University of Manitoba, 1945-48, President of the University of New Brunswick, 1948-53, and Principal, University College, University of Western Ontario, 1965-67. He also served as Chairman of the National Film Board, 1953-57, and was the first Director of the Canada Council, 1957-65.
ANTON WAGNER is editor of The Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Plays in English 1766-1978, of the four volume Canada's Lost Plays, and Contemporary Canadian Theatre: New World Visions. He obtained his doctorate with a thesis Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism, from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Currently he is engaged in post-doctoral studies at York University through a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.