Contributors

One of our favorite parts of this process was getting to interview many brilliant practitioners to learn their perspectives on cutting plays. We are so grateful to all of the following people, who generously shared their time and insight with us.

Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company, New York City
Tim Carroll, Artistic Director, Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director, Stratford Festival of Canada, Stratford, Ontario
Amy R. Cohen, Catherine Ehrman Thoresen ‘23 and William E. Thoresen Professor of Speech and Theatre, Chair of the Theatre Department, Professor of Classics, Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Ralph Alan Cohen, Founding Executive Director and Senior Advisor at the American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia
Lue Morgan Douthit, Executive Director of Play On Shakespeare, Oregon
James Evans, Associate Director, Bell Shakespeare, Sydney
Linda Hutcheon, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, author, A Theory of Adaptation
Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Professor at SUNY New Paltz, freelance dramaturg and past president of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Megan McDonough, Cultural Programs Coordinator at Conejo Recreation and Parks District, California
Grant Mudge, Ryan Producing Artistic Director, Notre Dame Shakespeare, Indiana
Kate Mulvany, actor, text editor, playwright, and dramaturg, Sydney/New York City
Anna Northam, freelance actor, UK
Peter Oswald, freelance playwright and translator, London
Tina Packer, Founding Artistic Director, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, Massachusetts
Christine Schmidle, Text Associate at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, director of Vision and Text at Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival, and founder of Shakespeare text coaching service Words Words Words
James Shapiro, professor and author (1599, Contested Will), text editor for The Public Shakespeare, New York City
Caridad Svich, OBIE-award winning playwright, New York City
TJ Young, playwright and dramaturg, Pittsburgh, PA