STEPHEN A. BLACK is the author of the biography Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy (Yale 1999) and a reference book about O'Neill plays in performance, in addition to over thirty articles and papers. Emeritus Professor of English at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, British Columbia), he is a former president of the Eugene O'Neill Society. In 2006 the Eugene O'Neill Foundation named Professor Black as the sixth recipient of the Tao House Award.

BERT CARDULLO is Professor of American Culture and Literature at Ege (Aegean) University, Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in drama and film. He is the editor of Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 (2001), the translator of the film criticism of André Bazin, and the author, most recently, of Screening the Stage: Studies in Cinedramatic Art (2006).

VIVIAN CASPER is Associate Professor of English at Texas Woman's University in Denton. Since 1969, she has taught a variety of courses and genres, including poetry, fiction, speech, composition, English literature, twentieth-century American drama, modern African-American drama, and Shakespeare.

WENDY COOPER is past president of the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, Tao House and currently serves as an honorary board member. In 2006 she received the Open Gate Award in recognition of her work as Foundation president, as editor of the Foundation newsletter for twelve years, and as an "all-round volunteer." She is proud to have originated the Eugene O'Neill Festival during her presidency and the Living History at Tao House program. Wendy is currently a docent at Tao House, a board member of the Eugene O'Neill Society and editor of the Society's newsletter.

MICHAEL D'ALESSANDRO is currently a dramaturgy and dramatic criticism doctoral candidate at Yale University, where he has held teaching fellowships with the college's Theatre Studies Department and the School of Drama. His specialties include nineteenth-century temperance drama and theater of the Irish literary renaissance. Michael was an Arthur Levitt Scholar at Hamilton College and received the Frederick Reese Wagner and Frank H. Ristine Prize Scholarships in English Literature.

ROBERT M. DOWLING is an assistant professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. His first book, entitled Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (Illinois, 2007), will appear this summer. He is currently working on his next book project Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (Facts on File, 2008) and co-editing with Eileen J. Herrmann a critical anthology on O'Neill's early bohemian and radical influences.

THIERRY DUBOST is a professor at the University of Caen in France. He is the author of Struggle, Defeat or Rebirth: Eugene O'Neill's Vision of Humanity (McFarland, 1997 [softcover 2005]). He has co-edited three books, all published by Caen University Press, and translated Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman in 1986. His book on contemporary Irish playwright Thomas Kilroy, The Plays of Thomas Kilroy, will be published by McFarland in spring 2007.

KURT EISEN, a professor and chairperson of the Department of English and Communications at Tennessee Tech University, teaches modern drama and American literature. He is the Book Review Editor of the Eugene O'Neill Review, and the author of a 1994 book on O'Neill, The Inner Strength of Opposites.

PENNY FARFAN is Professor of Drama and English at the University of Calgary. She is the author of Women, Modernism, and Performance (Cambridge UP, 2004), as well as numerous articles about modern drama and performance.

ROBERT SIMPSON McLEAN, Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York, has written on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin and nineteenth-century theater. In addition to ongoing work on Dickens, he reviews plays by Eugene O'Neill, Henrik Ibsen and contemporary playwrights. He is Performance Review Editor for the Eugene O'Neill Review.

MARCIA NOE is Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland. With research partner Junia Alves, she recently published O Palco e a Rua: a Trajetoria do Teatro do Grupo Galpão in Brazil.

YUJI OMORI, Assistant Professor of English at Takushoku University and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Cultural Science of Chuo University in Tokyo, is the author of many articles on American drama, including a chapter on David Henry Hwang in The Transformation of Modern Drama: From the Modern to the Postmodern (Tokyo: Chuo UP, 2001). He has also presented papers on Clifford Odets and Rachel Crothers at the annual meetings of the National Conference of American Drama Researchers in Japan.

NELSON O'CEALLAIGH RITSCHEL is currently an associate professor at Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he teaches Irish literature and theater. His latest book, Performative and Textual Imaging of Women on the Irish Stage, 1820-1920: M.A. Kelly to J.M. Synge and the Allgoods, was published early in 2007. Previous books include Synge and Irish Nationalism: The Precursor to Revolution (2002) and Productions of the Irish Theatre Movement, 1899-1916 (2001). He has published numerous articles on Synge and Irish theater in journals such as New Hibernia Review, Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, and The New England Theatre Journal. His recent essay "Shaw, Connolly, and the Irish Citizen Army" will appear in the 2007 anthology The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies: Shaw 27. He is presently editing James Connolly's play, Under Which Flag?, and working on a book on Shaw and Irish socialism.

SARAH ANN STANDING is completing her PhD in the theater program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).