Helen Nicholson is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her books include
Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre (2005/2014),
Theatre, Education and Performance (2011), and co-edited collections
Performance and Participation (2017) and
Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre (2016). With Nadine Holdsworth and Jane Milling as Co-Investigators, she was Principal Investigator on two research projects on amateur theatre, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Nadine Holdsworth is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She has written
Joan Littlewood’s Theatre (2011),
Theatre & Nation (2010) and
Joan Littlewood (2006), edited
Theatre and National Identity (2014), and co-edited a special issue of
Contemporary Theatre Review on amateur theatre (2017).
Jane Milling is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. She has co-authored
Devising Performance (2005/2015),
Modern British Playwrighting: the 1980s (2012), and co-edited
The Cambridge History of British Theatre: Volume 1 (2004) and
Extraordinary Actors (2004).