Contributing Essayists in [The Sourcebooks Shakespeare]

Gregory Doran ("As Performed" for Macbeth) is Chief Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  He has been an Associate Director since 1996. 

Jeremy Ehrlich (Series, "Working with Audio in the Classroom") has published essays on Shakespeare bibliography as well as Shakespeare pedagogy.  He has taught or directed at the elementary, middle, high school and undergraduate levels.  He is a graduate of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Thomas Garvey (Series, "In the Age of Shakespeare") has been acting, directing, or writing about Shakespeare for over two decades.  A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he studied acting and directing with the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, where he played Hamlet, Jacques, Iago, and other roles, and directed All's Well That Ends Well and Twelfth Night.  He has since directed and designed several other Shakespearean productions, as well as works by Chekhov, Ibsen, Sophocles, Beckett, Moliere, and Shaw.  Mr. Garvey has written on theater for the Boston Globe and other publications.

Jeffrey Horowitz ("As Performed" for Julius Caesar) is the founder and Artistic Director of Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) in New York City.  Its mission is to help develop and vitalize the performance and study of Shakespeare and classic drama. 

Russell Jackson ("As Performed" for Hamlet) holds the Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham (UK). From 1978 to 2004 he was a Fellow (and latterly, Director) of the Shakespeare Institute, the Stratford-based center for graduate studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.  He edited The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage (with Jonathan Bate, 2nd edition, 2001), two volumes in the Players of Shakespeare series (with Robert Smallwood for Cambridge University Press), and his second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film was published in 2007. Since the mid-1980s he has worked as text advisor to Kenneth Branagh on stage and radio productions, and on all his Shakespeare films, and also on films by Oliver Parker (Othello, An Ideal Husband) and John Madden (Shakespeare in Love).

Douglas Lanier (Series, "Popular Culture") is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. He has written many essays on Shakespeare in popular culture, including Shakescorp Noir in Shakespeare Quarterly 53.2 (Summer 2002) and Shakespeare on the Record in The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare in Performance (eds. Barbara Hodgdon and William Worthen, Blackwell, 2005).  His book, Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture (Oxford University Press), was published in 2002.

Jill Levenson ("In Production" for Romeo and Juliet) is a Professor of English at Trinity College at the University of Toronto.  She has written and edited numerous essays and books including Romeo and Juliet for the Manchester University Press’s series Shakespeare in Performance (1987), Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century (with Jonathan Bate and Dieter Mehl), and the Oxford edition of Romeo and Juliet (2000).

Courtney Lehmann ("As Performed" for Much Ado About Nothing) is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Pacific Humanities Center at University of the Pacific.  She is the author of Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern (Cornell UP, 2002) and Co-Editor, with Lisa S. Starks, of Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema and The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002).  She has published essays on Shakespeare and film in journals such as Textual Practice, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Renaissance Drama, as well as in a range of collections, including The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare and Performance (Eds. Barbara Hodgdon and W. B. Worthen, Blackwell 2005) and Colorblind Casting in Shakespeare (Ed. Ayanna Thompson, Routledge 2007).

Lois Potter ("In Production" for Othello and Richard III) is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware.  She has also taught in England, France, and Japan, attending and reviewing as many plays as possible.  Her publications include the Arden edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen and Othello for the Manchester University Press’s series Shakespeare in Performance.

Antony Sher ("Actor Speaks" for Richard III) is a novelist, playwright, and one of the most acclaimed British classical actors of his generation.  He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1982, and his big breakthrough came when he played the title role in Richard III, for which he won the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award.  Since then, he has performed in numerous stage productions, including The Merchant of Venice, Tamburlaine and Macbeth, in addition to recent films such as Shakespeare in Love (1995) and Mrs. Brown (1997). A multi-talented artist, Antony Sher was knighted in 2000 for his service in the arts. 

Janet Suzman's ("As Performed" for Othello) distinguished acting career includes playing many major roles at the RSC and in the West End of London. She has twice won The Evening Standard Best Actress Award, and earned Academy Award and Golden Globe Nominations for Nicholas and Alexandra. Other films include The Draughtsman’s Contract, The Singing Detective, A Dry White Season, Fellini’s E La Nave Va, and Nuns on the Run. Her Hedda Gabler was chosen as the BBC’s 50th Anniversary Play of The Month repeat. In 1987 she directed Othello with John Kani in her native South Africa, and filmed it for Channel Four TV. She has written and directed her own response to Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard set in post-democratic South Africa and re-named The Free State (Methuen 2000). She directed Hamlet in South Africa, again working with John Kani, in the summer of 2005.

Andrew Wade (Series, Audio Contributor, "Keeping Shakespeare Practical") was Head of Voice for the Royal Shakespeare Company, 1990 - 2003 and Voice Assistant Director from 1987-1990. During this time he worked on 170 productions and with more than 80 directors. Along with Cicely Berry, Andrew recorded Working Shakespeare, the DVD series on Voice and Shakespeare, and he was the verse consultant for the movie Shakespeare In Love. In 2000, he won a Bronze Award from the New York International Radio Festival for the series Lifespan, which he co-directed and devised.  He works widely teaching, lecturing and coaching throughout the world.