Christopher Innes is a Professor of English at York University, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. He is the author of many books on modern drama and theatre history.
Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Fellow of the International Research Center 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' at the Freie Universit�t in Berlin. Author of numerous books, including Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004) and over 100 articles in refereed journals and chapters of collected volumes, her publications have been translated into seven languages. She is the co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and a member of the editorial team of Critical Stages, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. She is on the editorial boards of various international journals… including the Russian-British Stanislavski Studies and Polish Theatre Perspectives. She has been a Visiting Professor at various institutions across the world, including the Academy of Theatre Arts in St Petersburg.