Acclaimed Irish playwright and Nobel laureate Bernard Shaw has left an indelible mark on Western theater, culture, and politics. Over the course of his life, he wrote more than sixty plays that addressed prevailing social problems through comedy. Shaw was also a prolific essayist and lecturer on politics, economics and sociological subjects, and was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that is marked by its use of stunning satire to encapsulate humanity.

Christopher Innes is Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto, and Research Professor at Copenhagen University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Royal Society of Arts (UK), and a Killam Fellow, he holds a Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture at York. The author of fifteen books--translated into eight different languages--he is also General Editor of the Cambridge ＂Directors in Perspective＂ series, as well as co-editor of the quarterly journal Modern Drama.

Brigitte Bogar, currently studying in the PhD Music program at York University, Toronto, has performed several major operatic roles, including Leonora in Fidelio, Gutrune in Götterdämmerung, Agathe in Der Freischutz, Elektra in Idomeneo, and Romeo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi. In 2014, she recorded a CD featuring music composed by Bernard Shaw and his mother. Ms. Bogar is the founder of Nordic Opera Canada, for whom she has directed and performed in August Enna’s Little Matchgirl and The Princess and the Pea. She also conducts and sings with the Toronto Swedish Singers and has organized conferences in the United States for the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Music Association.