YASHDIP SINGH BAINS received his doctorate at Syracuse University and is Professor of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. He is author of a dozen articles on Canadian theatre, one of the most recent being 'Painted Scenery and Decorations in Canadian Theatres 1765-1825', which was published in Theatre History in Canada/Histoire du Théâtre au Canada, vol 3 no 2, fall 1982.
SHARON BLANCHARD lives in Montreal and took her Masters degree at McGill University. Her thesis was 'The Radio Productions of Esse W. Ljungh: An Introductory Study' (1981).
L.E. DOUCETTE is Associate Professor at Scarborough College, University of Toronto, and Associate Editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly. He is author of Emery Bigot: Seventeenth-Century Humanist (1970), of Theatre in French Canada: the Foundations, 1606-1867 (1984), and of several articles on theatre history in French Canada.
ALAN FILEWOD is completing a thesis on Canadian documentary theatre at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. He has published articles on collective creation and political theatre, and is a contributor to CBC Stereo Morning.
PIERRE GOBIN is Professor of French at Queen's University at Kingston. He is author of Le Fou et ses doubles, figures de la dramatique québécoise (1978), and of numerous articles on French drama and theatre in Canada. He is currently working on a study of 'deviant' characters in Quebec drama, and on soties in the francophone literatures.
NORMA JENCKES teaches English at the University of Cincinnati. She received her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and specializes in modern drama and theatre history.
TIMOTHY J. MCGEE is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto, Academic Secretary at the Centre for Medieval Studies, and Acting Director of the Institute for Canadian Music. His textbook, Music In Canada, will be published in the spring of 1985.
WALTER J. MESERVE is Director of the Institute for American Theatre Studies at Indiana University. The author of several books on American drama, he has recently completed the second volume of his history of American drama, Spectacles of a Developing Nation: the Drama of the American People During the Age of Jackson, 1829-1849. He has a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85, to continue his writing.
WILLIAM NORRIS is Associate Professor of English at Clermont General and Technical College, University of Cincinnati. His most recent study, an article on the Black American actor, Samuel Morgan Smith, who played in London, England during the late 1860s, is due out in 1984.
MARY ELIZABETH SMITH is Chairman of the Division of Humanities, University of New Brunswick, at Saint John. A published scholar in renaissance literature, she is also author of Too Soon the Curtain Fell, a history of theatre in Saint John 1789-1900, and of numerous articles on Canadian drama and theatre history.