Rowan Mackenzie is both practitioner and academic, working with specialised communities. She is founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare UnBard and Co-Chair of the Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance. Her monograph Creating Space for Shakespeare will be published by Bloomsbury Arden in March 2023.

Robert Shaughnessy is Professor of Theatre and Director of Research at Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey. His most recent books are Shakespeare in the Theatre: The National Theatre 1963-1975 (Bloomsbury, 2018) and About Shakespeare: Bodies, Spaces and Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2020).