Trish Reid is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Arts and Communication Design at the University of Reading. She has published widely on contemporary theatre and performance in UK contexts and is particularly interested in the intersections between identity politics and materialist analyses. She is the author of The Theatre of Anthony Neilson (2017) and Theatre & Scotland (2013). Trish is co-convenor of the Political Performances Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Theatre (2024). Her next monograph, Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Scotland, will be published in 2023.

Liz Tomlin is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow where she specialises in the political analysis of contemporary European theatre and performance, and materialist analysis of the UK theatre industry. Monographs include Acts and Apparitions: Discourses on the Real in Performance Practice and Theory (2013) and Political Dramaturgies and Theatre Spectatorship: Provocations for Change (2019). She edited British Theatre Companies 1995 - 2014 (2015) and co-edited the special issue Artist Development: Class, Diversity and Exclusion for Studies in Theatre and Performance (40.3, 2020). She is currently the PI on an AHRC Leadership Fellowship examining figurations of working-class subjects in UK theatre practice and policy (2022-24). Liz was the writer and co-director with Point Blank Theatre from 1999-2009. 

Advisory board:

Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds
Alyson Campbell, University of Melbourne 
Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Awo Mana Asiedu, University of Ghana 
Carol Martin, New York University 
Caroline Wake, University of New South Wales
Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Collette Conroy, University of Cumbria
Freddie Rokem, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York
Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona
Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway
Rebekah Maggor, Cornell University
Severine Ruset, University of Grenoble
Ute Berns, University of Hamburg
Vicky Angelaki, Mid Sweden University
Yasushi Nagata, University of Osaka