Nicoleta Cinpoes is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Worcester, UK. She is an early modern drama scholar, a theatre historian, reviewer and occasional translator, a consultant for the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova, Romania, and a long-standing collaborator of the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival in Poland. Florence March is Professor at University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France, a specialist in Renaissance and Restoration drama, a drama translator at Maison Antoine Vitez (France's international centre for theatre translation) and a consultant for Le Printemps des Comédiens, Montpellier's international drama festival.
She has worked extensively on the structuring function of Shakespeare in southern France drama festivals. Paul Prescott is Professor of English and Theatre at the University of California, Merced, USA. He has a wide experience of working with Shakespeare festivals and companies, and is the co-founder of the annual Shakespeare in Yosemite festival in Yosemite National Park.