Emma Cole is Senior Lecturer in Drama and ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. Emma is a classicist and a theatre historian and is an expert on Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre. Her prior publications include Punchdrunk on the Classics: Experiencing Immersion in The Burnt City and Beyond (2023), Postdramatic Tragedies (2019), and Adapting Translation for the Stage (co-edited with Geraldine Brodie, 2017).
David Haines a retired consultant, working as a specialist in new technology products for some forty years, mostly in start-ups. In recent years he’s been concentrating on social enterprises in the adult social care sector, and I’m currently volunteering for a new Community Land Trust in Devon, where he’s lived since 1997. A lifelong interest in the Arts, especially Theatre, Dance, and Music, has led David to be a Trustee of the Theatre of the Gentle Furies. In his youth he ran and built adventure playgrounds, worked as a sculptor’s assistant, and helped to run a long running community festival in Oxford. He has described himself as a fan boy…
John J Johnston is a freelance Egyptologist, Classicist, and cultural historian. He brings substantial governance experience to the Theatre of the Gentle Furies as Ambassador for the International Society for the Study of Egyptomania, and former Vice-Chair of the Egypt Exploration Society. John’s research interests encompass mortuary archaeology, ancient sexualities, and modern receptions of the ancient world. He has lectured extensively at major cultural institutions throughout the UK. In addition to contributing numerous articles to both academic and general publications, he has co-edited three volumes, been shortlisted for a prestigious BSFA Award, and appeared on many television and Blu-ray documentaries.
Liz Schafer is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include MsDirecting Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare, performance histories of The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night, and a biography of Lilian Baylis. She has edited Richard Brome’s The City Wit and The Northern Lass for Oxford University Press. Recent publications include Theatre & Christianity and Shakespeare and Eco-Performance History: ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. She has dramaturged Margaret of Anjou, a ‘new’ play by Shakespeare, and Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry (1613). She is currently co-writing Shakespeare in the Theatre: Phyllida Lloyd with David Bullen.
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