Contributors

Contributors Steven Dedalus Burch received his graduate degrees from Northern Illinois University and his doctorate from the University of WisconsinMadison and is the theatre historian at the University of Alabama. He has written and published on theatre of the Holocaust and on the plays of Harold Pinter and Lee Blessing. His book, Historical Invisibility: Andrew P. Wilson and Irish and Scottish Theatres, 1911–1950, is to be published in early 2008 by the Edwin Mellen Press. Patrick Bynane has worked professionally as a teacher, actor, director , and technician in North Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, and Ohio. Dr. Bynane is an assistant professor of drama at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, where he advises the department’s MA candidates and teaches theatre history, literature, and dramatic structure, as well as the introductory theatre course. He received his PhD in Theatre History/ Criticism from Louisiana State University in 2002. Diana Calderazzo is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on cognitive studies and drama therapy. She received her MA degree from the University of Central Florida and her BA degree from Smith College. Much of Diana’s recent research focuses on the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, and her article on cognitive audience reception of the 2005 Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd can be found in the fall 2007 issue of the Sondheim Review. Broderick D. V. Chow is currently completing the first year of his PhD at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, the first 136 C O N T R I B U T O R S specialist college of drama and performing arts under the University of London banner and home to the Centre for Excellence in Theatre Training . His research looks at stand-up comedy as a “relational” form of performance , focused on the network of social relationships that exist between the spotlight and the seats. Broderick is a stand-up comedian, actor, and comedy writer. He can be seen on the London comedy circuit, as well as further afield in the United Kingdom. He has just finished a run of Akira California, a practical inquiry through stand-up and storytelling at the Camden Fringe, and CSSD’s Festival of Emergent Art. He also runs the monthly comedy club Justice League of Comedy, which is a themed night devoted to comic books and superheroes. Luc Gilleman teaches modern drama and literature courses in the English department and the Comparative Literature program at Smith College. His publications include articles on British and American playwrights , and he is the author of John Osborne: Vituperative Artist (New York: Routledge, 2002). Stanley Vincent Longman is Professor Emeritus, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Georgia. His major research interests are dramatic analysis and criticism and Italian theatre. He is the author of Composing Drama (1986) and Page and Stage (2004), both published by Allyn & Bacon. He has also published articles on Italian theatre history with particular emphasis on the evolution of Italianate theatre architecture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century. He has translated plays by such playwrights as Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Pietro Chirari, Luigi Pirandello, Luigi Antonelli, Rosso di San Secondo, Dino Buzzati, Luigi Lunari, and Luisella Sala. Christopher Morrison moved to Wisconsin in 2006 to work on a PhD in Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Having grown up in Northern Ireland, his connection to the professional stage began as organist in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. He has completed master’s degrees in journalism (Columbia University) and music composition (Cambridge University) and has taught in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, England, France, and the United States. He hopes to write a dissertation on the influence of Bergson on Beckett. Felicia J. Ruff is chair of the Department of Theatre and Speech at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY, where she teaches theatre history , script analysis, and seminars on Oscar Wilde and Greek theatre. Contributors 137 She spent the summer of 2007 at UCLA’s NEH seminar, “The Oscar Wilde Archive.” Boris Senker is professor of drama and theatre in the Department of Comparative Literature at Zagreb University in Croatia, and editor-inchief...