Anne Lancashire is the author of London Civic Theatre: Civic Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558 (2002), and editor of the 3-volume London Civic Theatre (2015), a Records of Early English Drama publication of transcribed and edited manuscript records of city-sponsored theatrical and musical activities in London from the 13th century to 1558, with a 187-page analytical introduction and 9 appendices. She has written the entry on London street theatre in OUP’s Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, and the entry on civic pageantry in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature, and has published numerous articles on pageantry and on drama in London in both the medieval and early modern periods. Now Professor Emerita of English, Drama, and Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, and a freeman of London, she authors/ edits and regularlyupdates her open-access researched and referenced database of Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1190 to the present (MASL; https://masl.library.utoronto.ca), and is also a member of the Editorial Board of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and assesses submissions for various journals.

David Bergeron is Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Kansas. His landmark study English Civic Pageantry (1971, revised in 2003) established his position as an authority on civic pageants, including mayoral shows. His work has regularly returned to this topic, but his scholarly focus has covered Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights, the Stuart royal family, and systems of patronage, especially of early modern drama, as well. His latest book is The Duke of Lennox, 1574-1624: A Jacobean Courtier’s Life (Edinburgh UP, 2022).

Dominic Reid OBE RIBA MA (Cantab) DipArch (UCL) was born and brought up in London. He studied architecture at Cambridge University before returning to London for postgraduate study at UCL. He practiced as an architect on a variety of public and private buildings including the award-winning Queen’s Stand at Epsom Racecourse and the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Meiringen, Switzerland.

He became Pageantmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show in 1992 and has held the post for thirty years, longer than anyone since it was first described in 1531. For the 800th Anniversary of the Show in 2015 he edited Lord Mayor’s Show; 800 years 1215-2015 published by Third Millenium Publishing. He has been closely involved in major London events including The Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. He has been a Member of the Cultural Strategy Partnership for London.

He is the CEO of the Invictus Games Foundation which uses sport to improve the lives of wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women and veterans, a role has has held since its inception.

He has also held the leading roles of London Film Commissioner and Executive Director of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. He has worked on the London Marathon and a series of significant commemorative events beginning with the VJ Day fiftieth-anniversary commemorations. He was the Director of the Royal Society’s 350th Anniversary Programme where he worked closely with many London institutions, museums, and galleries. Following the programme, the Royal Society received the 2011 Prince of Asturias award, the jury highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of the institution, in which the links between science, humanities and politics are made evident.

Dominic was appointed OBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours List for services to the City of London and The Queen’s Golden Jubilee. He is one of His Majesty’s Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London and the Serjeant-at-Mace of the Royal Society.

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Mark Kaethler is Department Chair, Arts, at Medicine Hat College; Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, with MoEML; and Assistant Director for LEMDO. They are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama (De Gruyter, 2021) and a co-editor with Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Janelle Jenstad of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge, 2018). Their work has appeared in The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, Digital Studies/Le Champe Numérique, and Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, as well as in several edited collections. Mark’s research interests include early modern literature’s intersections with politics; digital media and humanities; textual editing; game studies; cognitive science; and ecocriticism.

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVicʼs Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

MoEML Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at LEMDO, Molly primarily worked on encoding the MoEML Mayoral Shows.

Project manager 2022-present. Textual remediator 2021-present. Navarra Houldin completed their BA in History and Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. During their degree, they worked as a teaching assistant with the University of Victoriaʼs Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America.

Technical Documentation Writer, 2020-present. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.) in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was womenʼs writing in the modernist period.

Patrick Szpak is a Programmer Consultant and Web Designer in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre at the University of Victoria.

Dr. Tracey Hill is a Professor Emeritus of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. Her specialism is in the literature and history of early modern London. She is the author of two books: Anthony Munday and Civic Culture (Manchester UP, 2004), and Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern lord mayor’s Shows, 1585–1639 (Manchester UP, 2010). She has also published a number of articles on Munday’s prose works, on The Booke of Sir Thomas More, and on late Elizabethan history plays.

The MoMS General Editors are Mark Kaethler and Janelle Jenstad. The team includes SSHRC-funded research assistants. Peer review is coordinated by the General Editors but conducted by other editors and external scholars.