Kurt Daw is a professional director and the founding chair of the Department of Theater at Kennesaw State Univeristy in suburban Atlanta. He is the author of Acting: Thought Into Action, Acting Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, and (with Julia Matthews) A Guide to Scenes and Monologues from Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, all from Heinemann Press. Daw has twice been chosen to participate in Folger Shakespeare Library Institutes on Shakespearean performance funded by National Endowment for the Humanities grants.

Alan Dessen, Peter G. Phialas Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the Director of ACTER (A Center for Teaching, Education, and Research) and the editor of the "Shakespeare Performed" section of Shakespeare Quarterly. A world renowned expert in Shakespearean studies, he is the author of six book on English Renaissance drama, most recently Recovering Shakespeare's Theatrical Vocabulary (Cambridge UP, 1995). His current project is A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1581-1642 (with Leslie Thomson) to be published by Cambridge UP;

Michael D. Friedman is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Scranton, where he has published several articles on Shakespeare in production in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and the Shakespeare Bulletin and is at work on a book concerning four problematic Shakespearean comic heroes in performance.

Tom Gandy is a Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. For more than twenty years he has, quite literally, brought his students to Shakespeare by accompanying classes to performances in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana, finally formalizing this ritual in a course he calls "Shakespeare on Tour." Gandy created and maintains the home pages of the 1995-96 Folger/NEH Institute on Shakespeare Examined Through Performance.

Miranda Johnson-Haddad, Scholar in Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is an Educational Consultant for the Shakespeare Theatre and co-editor, with Alan Dessen, of "Shakespeare Performed" in Shakespeare Quarterly. She received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Yale University. She reviews regularly for Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Bulletin.

James Loehlin is Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth. He is the author of Henry V in the Manchester University Press Shakespeare in Performance series, and writes on stage and film production of Shakespeare. He is also a director and actor. He holds degrees from the University of Texas, Oxford and Stanford.

Julia Matthews is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, where she is a director and dramaturg. She completed her doctorate in Renaissance drama at the University of Warwick. Her book, a Guide to Scenes and Monologues from Shakespare and his Contempories,co-authored with Kurt Daw, was recently published by Heinemann.

Cary Mazer is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Shakespeare Refashioned: Elizabethan Plays on Edwardian Stages (U Michigan P, 1981). Mazer has published over fifty articles and reviews in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Comparative Drama, and Modern Language Review. He has been teaching Shakespearean performance and literature at Penn for twenty years; and

David McCandless is an Associate Professor of Theatre and English at Carleton College. His book, Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies, was published in 1997 by Indiana University Press.

Paul Nelsen is a Professor of Theatre at Marlboro College in Vermont where he has directed numerous Shakespearean productions and taught classical acting for twenty-five years. Nelsen is a contributing member of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre project responsible for reconstructing the Globe in London. He has published a series of articles on the Rose and Globe discoveries on the Bankside and on the Globe reconstruction project in Shakespeare Bulletin.

Nalin Ranasinghe is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross. He holds a doctorate in Philosophy from Penn State and completed two years of doctoral study in Literature at LSU.
 

Ellen Summers is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Hiram College in Cleveland, Ohio where she has taught Shakespearean studies for over a decade. In addition to participating in the NEH Humanities Institute at the Folger, she took part in the 1995 NEH summer institute on "Renaissance and Shakespearean Staging" with Ralph Alan Cohen at James Madison University.

Steve Vineberg is an Associate Professor of Theatre at College of the Holy Cross and the author of two books, Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style and No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade. He writes regularly on theatre and film for The Threepenny Review and The Boston Phoenix.

Clare-Marie Wall is an Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fresno where she has been teaching Shakespeare for over a decade. An actress and a dramaturg (most notably at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival), Wall has performed in a number of Shakespeare productions, including the role of Isabella in Measure for Measure. At CSU, Fresno, Wall created The Shakespeare Tapes, an award-winning, ongoing, educational videotape project.

John Buckingham is the Assistant Director of Audio-Visual Services at Holy Cross. Buckingham filmed and edited the Holy Cross production of Measure for Measure; prepared the slides and video and created the graphics used throughout the site.

Robert Henry is the Web Developer for the College of the Holy Cross. Henry has assisted in adapting and transferring audio visual material to the website, and in addressing an assortment of technical issues.

Jim Bulman, a Professor of English at Allegheny College, is the former President of the Shakespeare Association of America. He has authored a dozen books on Shakespeare, most recently Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance (Routledge, 1996) and is currently editing Henry IV, Part II for the New Arden series;

Kathleen Lynch is the Executive Director of the Folger Institute, where she strives to introduce
performance perspectives and pedagogical strategies into a wide range of seminars for graduate
 students and college faculty by coordinating programs with such partners as the Folger Consort and
the Shakespeare Theatre at the Lansburgh. She has directed seminars in adult education and
participated in pre-performance discussions with directorial staff at the Shakespeare Theatre. Her
interest in the original conditions of performance is represented in an article on "Dramatic Festivity
in Bartholomew Fair" in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. 

Lena Cowen Orlin is Research Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. She is the author of Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England and editor of Elizabethan Households: An Anthology, and she is on the editorial boards of Shakespeare Studies and Shakespeare Survey. She served for some years as Project Director for programs sponsored by the Folger Institute Center for Shakespeare Studies, overseeing a series of institutes on Shakespeare and performance.

Audrey Stanley is Professor Emirate of Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a founder of the Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival. Stanley was the first woman to direct at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and she has also directed at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. She has taught Shakespearean performance--acting and directing--for almost thirty years. Stanley--with Dessen--were the co-Directors of the 1995-1996 NEH Humanities Institute: "Shakespeare Examined Through Performance."

Janna Haworth, the head of the English Department at Macomb High School in Macomb Illinois, has been teaching Shakespeare to high school students for over twenty years.