The Great European Stage Directors Set 2

Simon Shepherd is Professor of Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK. He conceived and edits Palgrave's Readings in Theatre Practice series, for which his volume Direction appeared in 2012. Among his other titles are The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre, Drama/Theatre/Performance (with Mick Wallis), and Studying Plays (with Mick Wallis, Bloomsbury, 2010). Paul Allain is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent, UK. He has worked as Movement Director for the RSC and National Theatre and has published extensively on Polish theatre, Chekhov and actor training. He is currently director of the British Grotowski Project and leading a research collaboration with the Moscow Art Theatre School. Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,University of London, UK. Clare Finburgh is Reader in the department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the author of Watching War on the Twenty-First Century Stage (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017). Felicia Hardison Londre, Curators' Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, is Dean of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre (2012-2014). Her many books include The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870-1930 (2007), awarded the George Freedley Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Association. For twenty-three years she was dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theatre. Luk Van den Dries is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research deals with contemporary theatre, with a focus on postdramatic theatre . He has written extensively on Jan Fabre and on the representation of the body in contemporary theatre, and co-edited three books on this topic. Timmy De Laet is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and the Research Centre for Visual Poetics.