OndÅej Pilný is Professor of English and American Literature and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. His publications includeThe Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama(2016) andIrony and Identity in Modern Irish Drama(2006).

Ruud van den Beuken is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He was awarded the 2015 ISTR New Scholars' Prize and his publications includeAvant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940(2020).

Ian R. Walsh is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. His publications includeExperimental Irish Theatre: After W.B. Yeats(2012) and The Theatre of Enda Walsh(2015), co-edited with Mary Caulfield.