Banks Fiona - Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences

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Fiona Banks is a producer, arts educator and writer. She specializes in making theatre that seeks to engage diverse audiences, recognizing their role as co-creators of the art form; working with leading regional and national theatres to create work that builds new relationships between actors, creatives and audiences. She began her career as a stage manager and agent before training and working as a teacher in London secondary schools. Fiona created and led the learning department at Shakespeares Globe, pioneering the training of arts educators, and the development of community theatre and theatre for young people. As an educator Fiona focuses on the use and development of creative approaches to learning, developing and leading postgraduate courses for Kings College London and Cambridge University. She has acted as an adviser to the Department for Educations National Strategies and the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCA), creating with QCA the first creative assessment tasks for Shakespeare. Fiona is a general and series editor for the Globe Education Shakespeare play editions and author of Creative Shakespeare: The Globe Education Guide to Practical Shakespeare (2013). She is also currently undertaking PhD research into why audiences engage with Shakespeare in performance.

Susan Bennett is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is widely published across a variety of theatre and performance studies topics, with a particular interest in the contemporary production and reception of Shakespeares plays. Shakespeare Beyond English, a volume co-edited with Christie Carson, is a critical archive of the Globe to Globe Festival at Shakespeares Globe in 2012 (2013). Her latest book, co-edited with Sonia Massai, addresses the work of director Ivo van Hove including his Shakespeare adaptations Roman Tragedies and Kings of War (Ivo van Hove: From Shakespeare to David Bowie, 2018).

Jeremy Lopez is Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the editor of Shakespeare Quarterly. He is General Editor of The Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama (forthcoming, 2019) and the author of Theatrical Convention and Audience Response in Early Modern Drama (2003), Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama (2014), and numerous essays on the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Stephen Purcell is Associate Professor of English at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on the performance of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the modern stage and screen, and his publications include the books Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage (2009), Shakespeare and Audience in Practice (2013) and Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe (2017). He directs for open-air theatre company The Pantaloons.

Matthew Reason is Professor of Theatre and Performance at York St John University, UK. Publications include Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance (2006), The Young Audience: Exploring and Enhancing Childrens Experiences of Theatre (2010), Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices (co-edited with Dee Reynolds, 2012), Experiencing Liveness in Contemporary Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (co-edited with Anja Mlle Lindelof, 2016) and Applied Practice: Evidence and Impact Across Theatre, Music and Art (co-edited with Nick Rowe, 2017).

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre at the University of Surrey, UK. His books include The Shakespeare Effect: A History of Twentieth-Century Performance (2002), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (2007), The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare (2011) and Shakespeare in Performance: As You Like It (2017).

Charles Whitney is Professor of English Literature and Barrick Distinguished Scholar at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. He wrote the Introduction to the section Shakespeares Early Reception for the Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (ed. Bruce R. Smith, 2016), and Early Responses to Renaissance Drama (2006), which won the 2008 Elizabeth Dietz Award as Best Book in Early Modern Studies. He has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas, Borrowers and Lenders: A Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England and English Literary Renaissance, and he edited Thomas Lodge, an anthology of notable scholarship past and present. His earlier Francis Bacon and Modernity (1986) also appeared in a German edition (1989). His more recent ecocritical publications include articles on Dekkers and Middletons plague pamphlets, the economics of climate change, and Green Economics and the English Renaissance for the anthology Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now (ed. Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady, 2013). He has held Folger Library, Huntington Library and A.W. Mellon fellowships.