Ulrike Garde is Head of German Studies at Macquarie University, with research interests covering German intercultural studies and theatre. Her most recent book, co-authored with Meg Mumford, is Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2016).
John R. Severn is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. He is the author of Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical (Routledge 2019) and is currently working on an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project on the economic and cultural value of theatre in Australia.