Anna Birch is Lecturer in Research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK. She produces and directs performance and film projects as part of her engagement with practice as research. She is Artistic Director of Fragments & Monuments Performance and Film Company, based in Hackney, UK. Joanne Tompkins is Professor of Drama in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia.
She is the co-author of Post-Colonial Drama (with Helen Gilbert) and of Women's Intercultural Performance (with Julie Holledge). She is author of Unsettling Space : Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (2006).