EUGENE BENSON, Professor of English, University of Guelph, is a playwright, librettist, and novelist. He is editor of the journal Canadian Drama/L'Art dramatique canadien and has just finished a term as Chairman of the Writers' Union of Canada. His most recent book is J. M. Synge (Macmillan of London, 1982).
MOIRA DAY, a graduate student at the University of Toronto Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, is currently working as a part-time sessional instructor in the English and Drama Departments at the University of Alberta.
SHERRILL GRACE is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia and the author of Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood (1980) and The Voyage That Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry's Fiction (1982). She has also published articles on Canadian drama, Canadian and modern world literature.
CHRISTOPHER INNES is in the English Department at York University and has published widely on twentieth-century German and British theatre and avant-garde drama. His most recent book is a study of Edward Gordon Craig for the Cambridge University Press 'Directors in Perspective' series of which he is general editor. The work of George Ryga has been one of his interests for several years and a full-length study of Ryga's drama is shortly to be published by Simon and Pierre as the first volume in a new series on contemporary Canadian dramatists.
ALONZO LEBLANC, Professor titulaire, Université Laval, et un membre fondateur de la Société d'histoire du théâtre du Québec, est co-auteur (responsable de la section théâtre) du Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec, tome II, III, IV. Il a écrit les cinq Préfaces aux Oeuvres théâtrales de Gustave Lamarche, et aussi un collaborateur aux Archives des lettres canadiennes françaises, tome V. Parmis ses publications nombreuses est le texte d'Aurore, l'enfant martyre (1982).
ROBERT L. MCDOUGALL is Professor Emeritus of English at Carleton University. He was the founder and for many years the Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton. His Master's thesis at the University of Toronto, 1948, was 'Drama Designed for Listening: a Study of Radio Drama and its Practice in Canada.'
EDWARD MULLALY, who teaches theatre history and drama production at the University of New Brunswick, has been researching Fredericton theatre history, as well as the life style of the nineteenth-century company actor. He is currently working on studies of actor-managers Henry Preston and Charles Freer.
JAMES NOONAN is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University where he teaches Canadian drama and modern Irish literature. Besides his on-going interest in theatre at the National Arts Centre, he is doing research on Ottawa's Rideau Hall (Government House) in the nineteenth century. He has contributed several articles on Canadian drama and dramatists, English and French, to the Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (1983). He is also Book Review Editor (English) for Theatre History in CanadalHistoire du théâtre au Canada.