Contributors

Contributors SUSAN C.W. ABBOTSON currently teaches at Rhode Island College. Her books include The SllIdent Companion to Arthur Miller (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000) and, co-written with Brenda Murphy, Understanding Death of a Salesman (Westport, Cf: Greenwood, 1999). She has published articles on drama in American Drama. The Journal of American Drama and Theater, English Studies, and South Atlantic Review. DOUGLAS ABEL is an actor, director, playwright, theatre historian, and drama educator. He is currently the drama program head at Keyono College in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Previously published work includes articles on Edmund Kean, August Strindberg, and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, as well as interviews with R.H. Thompson and Martha Henry. His play The Cattle Pen had its world premiere at the Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo, New York, in April 1990. He has presented his one-person play about Christopher Marlowe, To Ride in Triumph, in Waterloo, Vancouver, Toronto , Kingston, the Stephenville Festival in Newfoundland, and the Alleyway in Buffalo. FRANCES BABBAGE is Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds. She is editor of "Working Without Baal: Digressions and Developments in the Theatre of the Oppressed," an issue of Contemporary Theatre Review that looks at ways in which the radical theatre techniques of Augusto Baal have been adapted for a range of social contexts. She has recently completed a PhD on the fe-visioning of myth in contemporary feminist theatre. ANNE NOTHOF is Professor of English at Athabasca University in Alberta, where she has written Study Guides for courses in drama and literature. Her Modern Drama, 43" (Spring 2000) 143 144 CONTRIBUTORS publications include essays on Sharon Pollock in Modern Drama 38:4, on David Hare in David Hare: A Casebook (Garland, 1994), on plays about Emily Carr in Mosaic 31:3, and on Canadian prairie drama by women in Great Plains Quarterly 18:2. She has recently edited a collection of plays for NeWest Press entitled Ethnicities: Plays ofthe New West (1999) and a collection of essays on Sharon Pollock for Guemica (2000). THOMAS E. PORTER teaches modem drama, Shakespeare, and world literature at the University of Texas at Arlington. His recent work includes an article on Arthur Miller's Th~ Creation of the World and Other Business in American Drama and an article on O'Neill's Dynamo in a forthcoming publication of the Eugene O'Neill Society. FRED RIBKOFF teaches literature and composition at Simon Fraser University and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. His interests include the psychological and philosophical implications of tragic literature; representations of the Holocaust in literature, film, and other art forms; and modem and postmodem American poeII)' and poetics. SHAUN RICHARDS is Head of Literature and Reader in Irish Studies at Staffordshire University, UK. He is the co-author of Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture (MUP, 1988) and has published widely on twentieth -century Irish drama and cultural politics. A book on modem Irish drama is currently in preparation for Macmillan. VICTORIA STEWART studied for a PhD on theatrical representations of World War II at the University of Leeds and is now a lecturer in English and Drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. PETA TAIT is a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre and Drama Department at La Trobe University, Australia. She is author of Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre (1994) and Original Women's Theatre (1993) and coeditor , with Dr Elizabeth Schafer, of Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms (1997). Her articles have been published in New Theatre Quarterly , Theatre Journal, and TheatreForum. DR LIZ TOMLIN holds a Research Fellowship in Performing Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University and is co-director of the touring performance company Point Blank. She is currently engaged in contemporary performance training, research, and development at the Open Performance Centre in Sheffield in collaboration with co-director Steve Jackson. Contributors 145 JERRY WASSERMAN is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia and editor of Modern Canadian Plays. He has published widely on modern drama and fiction and on American and Canadian blues literature . A long-time theatre critic for CBC Radio, he is also a TV and film actor, currently featured as...