Contributors

Contributors DAVID ALLEN is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Wolverhampton . He is the author of Pelfarming Chekhov (Routledge, 1999) and the forthcoming Chekhov for Beginners (Writers and Readers, 2000). He has written numerous articles on Chekhov's plays for publications such as New Theater Quarterly. He is also the author of Stanislavski for Beginners (Writers and Readers, 1999). TOM BURVlLL is head of the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published papers on contemporary Australian alternative and political theatre, both in Australia and internationally , and has a long-term advisory association with Sidetrack Performance Group, a leading Sydney alternative performance company, for whom he has acted as drarnaturg. CAROL A. FLATH is Associate Professor of the Practice of Slavics at Duke University and a translator of Russian and Japanese. JOHN FREEDMAN is the author of the Moscow Performances series, including Moscow P"formances: The New Russian Theater 1991- 1996 and its subsequent yearly updates. He has lived in Moscow and written about Russian theatre since 1988. MARCO GHELARDI is currently a postgraduate student in directing at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. MIRIAM HANDLEY was educated at Oxford, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and at Cambridge. She recently completed her PhD dissertation, "Reading Stage Directions: From Robertson to Shaw and Barker," and is now workModern Drama, 42 (Winter 1999) 650 Contributors 651 ing as a lecturer in English Literature and Drama at the University of Sheffield. ANDREW HOOD is a senior English master at Barker College, Sydney. He is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, working on the theoretical paradigms in play in the modem literary-critical reception of Shakespeare's last plays. PIA KLEBER is a Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and Director of the University College Drama Program. KARL D. KRAMER is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington. He has both written on Chekhov's stories and drama and ttanslated the major plays. DAVID KRAUSE is Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University and is the author of many works on Irish literature. MARGARITA ODESSKAYA is an Associate Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow and has written on major and minor Russian writers of the late nineteenth century for the most important Russian literary journals, including Navy mil' and Voprosy literatury. She is also the author of several articles in collections and series devoted exclusively to Chekhov. JOHN TULLOCH is Professor of Media Communication at Cardiff University and head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. His most recent book is Peiforming Culture: Stories ofExpertise and the Everyday. He has written books and articles that cross the high/popular culture divide and is currently interested in Shakespeare and Chekhov as "theatrical event." NlCK WORRALL is Principal Lecturer in English and Drama in the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University. He has written on Russian dramatists and theatre directors, and his most recent book, The Moscow Art Theatre (1996), has a section devoted to Stanislavsky's ' 904 production of The Cherry Orchard. ...