Joanne Tompkins is Professor Emerita at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has published widely in theatre studies, especially on spatiality and theatre, and on cultural politics in theatre. She has won awards for her research and her editing, and the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies offers an editing award named in her honour. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Queen Mary, University of London in 2015 and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. She founded Ortelia, a company which provides virtual reality models of examples of cultural heritage, and she is a co-founder of AusStage (with Julie Holledge). Julie Holledge is Professor Emerita of Drama at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. Her international standing as a scholar has been recognised through appointments as a 'Distinguished Professor' at the Open University of Hong Kong, and as a Professor II at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. She recently completed three collaborative book projects, Ibsen on Theatre (2018), A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions (2016; with Bollen and Tompkins), and Ibsen Between Cultures (2016). She has directed 22 professional theatre productions in the UK and Australia. In 2017, she was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Jonathan Bollen is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at UNSW Sydney, Australia. His research interests include performance and desire, popular entertainment, international touring, and digital methods for research. He is the author of Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975 (2020), and co-author of A Global Doll's House: Ibsen and Distant Visions (2016) and Men at Play: Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s (2008). His experience in the digital humanities includes developing data models for theatre research, mapping the distribution of performance, and visualising networks of artistic collaboration. Liyang Xia is Associate Professor at the Centre for Ibsen Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research areas include the reception history of Henrik Ibsen's drama in China, Chinese traditional theatre and its practice both historically and in contemporary China, and modern adaptations of Ibsen's drama around the world. She is co-editor of the journal Ibsen Studies as well as Contemporary Theatre Review's online journal Interventions.