Experts |
Heard in the documentary or on this companion website:
John Andrews
Editor of the Everyman Shakespeare editions, executive director of the Washington, DC, branch of the English-Speaking Union, president of The Shakespeare Guild
Libby Appel
Artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Vicki Botnick
Film historian
Douglas Brode
Professor of cinema studies, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, author of Shakespeare in the Movies (2000)
Jonathan Burton
Associate professor of English, West Virginia University
Joe Calarco
Director, adaptor/director of Shakespeare’s R + J (1997)
Charlotte Canning
Professor, department of theater and dance at the University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Cartelli
NEH Professor of Humanities and professor of English, Muhlenberg College
Linda Charnes
Associate professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
Michael J. Collins
Professor of English, Georgetown University
James Cook
Associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan
Craig Dionne
Professor of literature, Eastern Michigan University
Joe Dowling
Artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Gordon Edelstein
Artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut
Mercedes Ellington
Choreographer and director
Gerald Freedman
Dean of the school of drama, North Carolina School of the Arts
Stephen Greenblatt
Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
Kim Hall
Thomas F.X. Mullarkey Chair in English at Fordham University
Patricia King Hanson
Executive editor and project director of the American Film Institute catalog of feature films
Franklin J. Hildy
Professor of theater and performance studies, director of the Shakespeare Globe Center (USA) Research Archive in the Department of Theater at the University of Maryland
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Professor of theater, American University
Michael Kahn
Artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC
Scott Kaiser
Head of voice and text at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Margaret Knapp
Professor of theater and associate dean in the Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Silver Professor of History, New York University
Bernth Lindfors
Professor emeritus of English and African literatures, University of Texas at Austin
Bruce McConachie
Chair of theater arts department and professor of theater, University of Pittsburgh
Walter Mondale
Vice President of the United States, 1977 to 1981; United States Senator from Minnesota, 1964 to 1977
Heather S. Nathans
Associate professor of theater, associate chair of theater department, associate director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland
Anne D. Neal
President, American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Peggy O’Brien
Senior vice president for educational programming and services, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
P.J. Paparelli
Artistic director of Perseverance Theater, Juneau, Alaska
Peter Rawlings
Graduate-school director of humanities, languages, and social sciences, professor of English and drama, University of the West of England
Benjamin Reiss
Associate professor of English, Emory University
(At the time the interview was conducted, Reiss was associate professor of English at Tulane University.)
Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States, 1993 to 2001
Francesca Royster
Associate professor of English, DePaul University
Bartlett Sher
Artistic director at Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Washington
Alan Simpson
United States Senator from Wyoming, 1979 to 1997
Bruce R. Smith
College Distinguished Professor of English and professor of theater at the University of Southern California
Kim C. Sturgess
Author, Shakespeare and the American Nation (2004)
Frances Teague
Professor of English, University of Georgia
Alden T. Vaughan
Professor emeritus of history, Columbia University
Virginia Mason Vaughan
Department chair and professor of English, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Shane White
Chair of history department and professor of history, University of Sydney, Australia