Dutch Courtesan 2019 Project Team
David Klausner (Project Funding Leader; Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies, University of Toronto).
David taught for forty-five years in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, specializing in Old and Middle English, Middle Welsh, and Theatre History. For the project Records of Early English Drama (REED) he has edited the collections for Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and Wales, and is presently completing the collection for the North Riding of Yorkshire. He has been involved with Poculi Ludique Societas (PLS) since 1967 and is presently chair of the Board of Directors.
Helen Ostovich (Lead Researcher and Project Organizer; Professor Emerita, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University).
Helen has published on several early playwrights of the early modern period, dealing particularly with gender and misogyny, and has edited several plays by Jonson, Shakespeare, Brome, and Shirley. She is the general editor of Queen's Men Editions online, and was organizer of the Performance as Research and Robert Wilson's Three Ladies of London conference (2015). She is also one of the general editors of the Revels Plays and founding editor of the journal Early Theatre. She is co-editor of The Dutch Courtesan for the Oxford University Press Complete Works of John Marston (gen. eds, Martin Butler, Matthew Steggle).
Erin Julian (Organizer, Dramaturge, and Website; PhD, McMaster).
Erin focuses her research on sexual violence in early modern drama (particularly comedy), and diversity and equity work more generally. Her recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Practicing Diversity at the Stratford Festival of Canada: Shakespeare, Performance, and Ethics in the Twenty-First Century’ in The Arden Research Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance (eds Kirwan and Prince, Bloomsbury, 2020); 'What's Funny about The Dutch Courtesan?' (Early Theatre, 2020); 'Labour of Care: Academic Theatre Research in the Commercial Theatre' (Shakespeare Bulletin, forthcoming); ‘New Directions in Jonson Criticism’ (Early Theatre, 2014); and The Alchemist: A Critical Reader (eds Julian and Ostovich, Bloomsbury, 2013). She is also co-editor of The Dutch Courtesan for the Oxford University Press The Collected Works of John Marston.
Noam Lior (Organizer and Director; PhD, University of Toronto).
Noam is one of the co-founders of Shakespeare at Play, working as its dramaturge, editor, annotator, and occasional performer (playing older male roles when better actors are not available). Noam is an alumnus of the University College Drama Program and the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, where his dissertation focused on digital multimedia Shakespeare editions. He also works as a director and dramaturge (sometimes even on non-Shakespeare plays!), and is serving as dramaturge and judge for Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Company's ShakesBeers Showdown. He is also Finance and Publications Co-ordinator for the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Linda Philips (Organizer, Producer, and Costume Designer; Artistic Director, Poculi Ludique Societas).
Linda is the Artistic Director and Resident Designer of PLS, which has been producing medieval and early modern drama for over 50 years at the University of Toronto, including many co-productions with CDTPS. Linda is involved in all PLS productions, generally as designer and producer, and sometimes as director. Most recently she has produced, directed, and designed three plays for PLS: Dame Sirith (July 2018), The Second Shepherds' Play (December 2017), and Dulcitius (Spring 2017).