Johnny Saldaña is a professor of theatre at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film. He is the author of Longitudinal Qualitative Research: Analyzing Change Through Time (AltaMira Press, 2003); Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre (AltaMira Press, 2005); The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (Sage Publications, 2009); and Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles and chapters on theatre, longitudinal qualitative inquiry and ethnodrama.