Peter Cockett is an associate professor in the iArts (Integrated Arts) program at McMaster University. He is the co-editor, with Melinda Gough, of (University of Toronto Press, 2025) which publishes the findings of their 2018 Performance as Research (PaR) workshop at the Stratford Festival Lab. He is the general editor (performance), and technical co-ordinating editor of . His PaR directing credits include , , and (2006), (2010), and (2015) for the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men project (SQM). The process behind the 2006 productions is documented in depth on the project website . For the PLS, the University of Toronto’s Medieval and Renaissance Players, he has directed the Digby (2003) and the double bill of George Peele’s and the Chester (2004). He also directed (2005) for the SQM project and (2008) in collaboration with Alan Dessen. Peter is a professional actor and director with numerous stage and screen credits. He can be contacted at cockett@mcmaster.ca.

Project Manager, 2025-present; Assistant Project Manager, 2024-2025; Research Assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA (honours with distinction) in 2024, and an MA English in 2026. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Her SSHRC-funded MA thesis project focuses on transcribing, editing, and encoding early modern girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s in collaboration with LEMDO.

Andrew Griffin is an associate professor in the department of English and an affiliate professor in the department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is general editor (text) of Queen’s Men Editions. He studies early modern drama and early modern historiography while serving as the lead editor at the EMC Imprint. He has co-edited with Helen Ostovich and Holger Schott Syme (2009) and has co-edited (2016) with Patricia Fumerton and Carl Stahmer. His monograph, , was published with the University of Toronto Press in 2019. He is editor of the anonymous (Queen’s Men Editions, 2011). He can be contacted at griffin@english.ucsb.edu.

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s 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.

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

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 Beatrice Kaethler, she co-edited (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s for DRE. Her articles have appeared in , , , , , and . She contributed chapters to (MLA); (MLA); (Brill); (Arden); (Ashgate); (Routledge); (Iter); (Indiana); (Minnesota); (Routledge); and (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in (2018), (2019), and (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Helen Ostovich, professor emerita of English at McMaster University, is the founder and general editor of . She is a general editor of The Revels Plays (Manchester University Press); Series Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama (Ashgate, now Routledge), and series co-editor of Late Tudor and Stuart Drama (MIP); play-editor of several works by Ben Jonson, in (1997); (Revels 2001); and (Cambridge 2012). She has also edited the Norton Shakespeare 3 Q1602 and F1623 (2015); and for , revised for a 4-volume set from OUP 2021; , for the Oxford Complete Works of James Shirley (2021); for Internet Shakespeare Editions, and (with Erin Julian) for the Complete Works of John Marston, OUP 2022. She has published many articles and book chapters on Jonson, Shakespeare, and others, and several book collections, most recently with Lisa Hopkins (2014), and the equivalent to book website, The Three Ladies of London containing scripts, glossary, almost fifty conference papers edited and updated to essays; video; link to and YouTube: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/index.htm, 2015. Recently, she was guest editor of Strangers and Aliens in London ca 1605, Special Issue on Marston, 23.1 (June 2020). She can be contacted at ostovich@mcmaster.ca.

Holger Schott Syme is an associate professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is author of (CUP, 2011) and co-editor with Helen Ostovich and Andrew Griffin of (Ashgate, 2009). His recent work includes , (2011); , (2010); and , 38.1 (2008): 142–171. As textual editor, he has produced (Shakespeare and others) and , by Munday, Chettle, Dekker, Heywood, Shakespeare and others, for ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. (W.W. Norton, 2015). He can be contacted at holger.syme@utoronto.ca.

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.