MARILYN BASZCYZYNSKI enseigne le français à l'Université de Western Ontario. Elle s'interesse à la littérature canadienne-française avec un intérêt particulier pour l'oeuvre d'Anne Hébert et le théâtre québécois d'avant 1900.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, who has recently retired as Master of Massey College and professor of English and Drama in the University of Toronto, is one of Canada's foremost novelists, essayists, and playwrights. His most recent novel is The Rebel Angels (1981), and Canadian Drama/l'Art dramatique canadien devoted a special issue (volume 7, number 2, 1981) to his work as a playwright.
L.E. DOUCETTE is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He is author of Emery Bigot: Seventeenth-Century Humanist (1970) and of a forthcoming history of theatre in French-Canada before Confederation. Part I of his article on Political Theatre and Para-theatre in French Canada appeared in Theatre History in Canada/Histoire du theatre au Canada (Fall 1981).
MURRAY EDWARDS is Co-ordinator of Fine Arts, University Extension, at the University of Victoria and best known for his pioneering study, A Stage in our Past.
INGRID JOUBERT est Professeur agrégé au Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, chargée de cours de littérature française depuis 1972. Elle a publié un livre sur l'oeuvre romanesque de Jean-Paul Sartre et des articles sur le théâtre canadien-français et Sartre. Elle prépare actuellement un recueil d'essais sur Sartre, un doctorat d'Etat à Paris III et un livre sur le théâtre canadien-français de l'après-querre.
BARBARA McEWEN is a member of the Department of Romance Studies at Brock University. Her areas of interest are French theatre, and Quebec history and literature. She is engaged in research on contemporary Quebec theatre.
PAUL O'NEILL is a professional writer and historian as well as Executive Producer of Arts Programming (radio) with the CBC in St. John's, Newfoundland. An actor and director, he has written considerably about the theatre in Newfoundland and recently compiled a theatre history of his province for the Department of Education to be used in a drama course in high schools.
JOHN RIPLEY, a Nova Scotian by birth, earned his MA in Canadian literature at the University of New Brunswick and his doctorate in theatre history at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham; he is currently a professor of English at McGill University where he teaches theatre. His publications include John Philip Kemble's Acting Edition of 'Julius Caesar' (1971), 'Canadian drama and theatre' for the Literary History of Canada (1976), 'Julius Caesar' on Stage in England and America (1980), and a number of articles on international theatre and Canadian drama. His book Gilbert Parker and Herbert Beerbohm Tree Stage 'The Seats of the Mighty' will be published shortly by Simon and Pierre.
JONATHAN RITTENHOUSE teaches drama at Bishop's University. He received his doctorate in theatre history from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, in 1980 and is currently doing research on English language theatre in the Eastern Townships.
ROSS STUART, past President of ACTH/AHTC, is an editor of the Canadian Theatre Review and has written extensively on Canadian theatre history and drama. He is currently Acting Chairman of the Department of Fine Arts, Atkinson College, York University.
ANTON WAGNER is editor of the Canada's Lost Plays series published by Canadian Theatre Review Publications, and general editor of the Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Plays in English (1981).