Colin Chambersis Emeritus Professor of Drama at Kingston University. Colin was Literary Manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1981 to 1997, and has also been a journalist and theatre critic. He is co-author with Richard Nelson of Kenneth's First Play and Tynan (both Royal Shakespeare Company), and he selected and edited for performance Three Farces by John Maddison Morton, which were produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. As well as editing theContinuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre, Colin has written extensively on the theatre includingOther Spaces: New Writing and the RSC,Playwrights' Progress(with Michael Prior),The Story of Unity Theatre, Peggy: The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent(winner of the inaugural Theatre Book Prize),Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company, Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and PerformancePaul Robeson, Isadora Duncan and Charlie ChaplinandBlack and Asian Theatre in Britain: A History. Peggy to Her Playwrights: The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, play agentwas published to critical acclaim in 2018.