Sharon Friedman is Associate Professor of Literature and Drama at the Gallatin School, New York University, USA. She is the editor of Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (2008) and author of numerous essays on twentieth century drama.

Cheryl Black is Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She is the author of The Women of Provincetown, 1915-1922 (2002) and has written widely on twentieth-century drama and performance.