Taiwo Afolabi is the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre, the director of the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, and an associate professor at the University of Regina, Canada.

Dr Abdul Karim Hakib is a lecturer at the University of Ghana. His research focuses on Historicizing Theatre for Development (TfD).

Bobby Smith is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK.