Michael Best is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, BC. He founded the in 1996, and was Coordinating Editor until 2017, contributing two editions to the ISE: and (the latter also available in print from Broadview Press). In print, he has published editions of works of Elizabethan magic and huswifery, a collection of letters from the Australian goldfields, and (2008). He contributed regular columns for the on Electronic Shakespeares, and has written many articles and chapters for both print and online books and journals, principally on questions raised by the new medium in the editing and publication of texts. He has delivered papers and plenary lectures on electronic media and the at conferences in Canada, the USA, the UK, Spain, Australia, and Japan.

Rylyn Christensen is an English major at the University of Victoria.

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.

Jessica Dell (, Q1 1584) defended her doctoral dissertation, in September 2014 at McMaster University. In 2016, she became a full-time instructor at Aurora College (NWT) in the Bachelor of Education program which partners with the University of Saskatchewan and the Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP). Recent publications include in (2014) and, with David Klausner and Helen Ostovich, co-edited (2012). She can be contacted at Jdell@auroracollege.nt.ca.

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Tracey was also a member of the team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

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.

Diane Jakacki is Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Affiliated Faculty in Comparative and Digital Humanities at Bucknell University. She is the lead investigator of the REED London Online Project and principal investigator of the NHPRC-Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Liberal Arts Based Digital Publishing Cooperative project. Jakacki has published and presented widely on early modern studies, theatre history, digital humanities, and digital humanities pedagogy. Jakacki’s full CV can be found at https://dianejakacki.blogs.bucknell.edu/cv/.

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.

Erin Julian (, performance) completed her SSHRC-funded dissertation () in English and Cultural Studies in 2014 at McMaster. She currently holds a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Western University (). Her recent publications include for 17.1 (2014) and (co-authored with Helen Ostovich) in Julian and Ostovich (eds), (Bloomsbury, 2013). She is also co-editor of for the Complete Works of John Marston (OUP, forthcoming) and editor of the website associated with the performance of the play in March 2019. Her essay on performance, : What’s Funny about The Dutch Courtesan? appears in 23.1 (2000), the special issue on Marston’s play. She can be contacted at ejulian@uwo.ca.

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.

Sally-Beth MacLean, professor emeritus, department of English, University of Toronto, is director of research/general editor of the Records of Early English Drama series and director of the REED and . She is also co-author with Scott McMillin of (CUP, 1998) and with Lawrence Manley of (Yale UP, 2014). She has published widely on patronage, touring, digital initiatives, and festive culture. Her most recent article is , with Tanya Hagen, , Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King, Meg Twycross, and Greg Walker (eds), , 38 (Boydell & Brewer, 2016), 232–246. She can be contacted at s.maclean@utoronto.ca.

Christopher Matusiak () is an Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College in New York where he teaches courses on Shakespeare and early modern drama. His research on seventeenth-century theatre management at the Drury Lane Cockpit has appeared in and , and in on the use of John Aubrey’s manuscripts in studies of Shakespeare’s life. He is currently writing a book (with Eva Griffith) about Christopher Beeston and the Cockpit playhouse, and researching another on the persistence of illegal stage-playing during the English Civil Wars, . He also prepared : an edited collection of seventeenth-century manuscripts and printed documents illustrating the history of the Cockpit-Phoenix playhouse in Drury Lane (for ). He can be contacted at cmatusiak@ithaca.edu.

Chloe Mee (she/her) worked as a research assistant with the LEMDO team over several periods from 2022 to 2025. She graduated from the University of Victoria in 2025 with a BA (Hons with distinction) in English. She will be studying at the University of British Columbia to complete her MA in English. Chloe collaborated with the LEMDO team on a VKURA internship in summer 2022, mainly focusing on Hamlet quartos. Following her internship, she also worked as a research assistant in 2022–23 and 2025.

Dimitry Senyshyn (, text) has current research focusing on Shakespeare’s tragicomic romances and their relation to a native tradition of popular romance. He has co-edited an old-spelling edition of for with Jennifer Robert-Smith. He contributed to the preparation of the REED volume, and he has published in , , and the . He can be contacted at dimitry.senyshyn@gmail.com.

Kim is a PhD Candidate in Media Studies and Digital Humanities, through UVic’s English Department. Kim has worked for years in TEI and XML, mostly through the Colonial Despatches website, and in a number of roles, including technical editor, research and markup, writing and editing, documentation, and project management. Recently, Kim worked with a team of Indigenous students to find ways to decolonize the Despatches project’s content and encoding practices. Part of Kim’s dissertation project, , is to prototype a haptic map, a motion-activated topography installation that plays audio clips of spoken toponyms, in SENĆOŦEN and English, of the W̱SÁNEĆ Territory/Saanich Peninsula, respectively.

Peter Sirisko, consultant for the QME, is Media Producer at New Motto in Hamilton, Ontario. He has a Bachelor of Arts, Honours, in Theatre and Film from McMaster University (2013), where he was an editor for McMaster Television, a Theatre Technician, and a Media Production Intern. He has been a freelance video producer since 2010.

Ada Souchu is an MA student at Sorbonne Université in Early Modern English literature. After a BA in Classics in 2021, they are currently doing an MA on Latin and Greek sources in Early Modern theatre. They are a junior transcriber on the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project.

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.

Chantelle Thauvette (1592 Q2 text) completed her PhD in English and Cultural Studies, 2013, at McMaster, with a Doctoral Diploma in Gender Studies and Feminist Research. She has published a book chapter in (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), and articles in , , , and has presented papers at interdisciplinary early modern conferences including the Renaissance Society of America, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare Association of America, and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She can be contacted at cthauvette@siena.edu.

Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.) in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was women’s writing in the modernist period.

Emily Winerock was a choreographer with Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men Project. She worked on (2006) and (2006).