Vivian Appler is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. She has published scholarship at the intersection of science and performance in
Global Performance Studies,
Theatre History Studies, and other journals. She is a former fellow of Fulbright and the Huntington Library.
Amy Cook, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and English at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, is the author of
Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science, (2010) and essays in, among others,
Theatre Journal,
TDR,
SubStance, the
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism,
Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre, the
Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition (forthcoming). She was the co-chair of the Working Group in Cognitive Science and Performance for American Society for Theatre Research from 2010-2014.
Meredith Conti is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. She is the author of
Playing Sick: Performance of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (2018) and the co-editor (along with Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) of
Theatre and the Macabre (2021).
John Lutterbie was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, USA. He was the director of the International Network for Cognition, Theatre and Performance and with Nicola Shaughnessy was the series editor of the Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues series.
Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent. She is Director of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism.'
She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008).