Michael Earley is Chief Producer of Plays for BBC Radio Drama in London. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, dramatic literature and playwriting there and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, The Julliard School's Acting Program, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain. Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.

• Notes to the Actor, Absent Friends (1974) Alan Ayckbourn, After the Fall (1964) Arthur Miller, Antigone (1944) Jean Anouilh, The Balcony (1956) Jean Genet, The Bald Prima Donna (1950) Eugene Ionesco, Blithe Spirit (1941) Noel Coward, Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) James Baldwin, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Tennessee Williams, Cloud Nine (1979) Caryl Churchill, The Cocktail Party (1950) T. S. Eliot, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967) Peter Nichols, East (1975) Steven Berkoff, Faith Healer (1979) Brian Friel, The Glass Menagerie (1945) Tennessee Williams, The Good Person of Sichuan (1939-40) Bertolt Brecht, Happy Days (1961) Samuel Beckett, Hello and Goodbye (1965) Athol Fugard, The House of Blue Leaves (1971) John Guare, Huis Clos [In Camera/No Exit] (1944) Jean-Paul Sartre, Icarus's Mother (1965) Sam Shepard, The Iceman Cometh (1940) Eugene O'Neill, Jumpers (1972) Tom Stoppard, La Turista (1967) Sam Shepard, The Lark (1953) Jean Anouilh, Long Day's Journey into Night (1940) Eugene O'Neill, Look Back in Anger (1956) John Osborne, The Maids (1947) Jean Genet, The Misunderstanding (1944) Albert Camus, Napoli Milionaria (1945) Eduardo de Filippo, Old Times (1971) Harold Pinter, Otherwise Engaged (1975) Simon Gray, The Plough and the Stars (1926) Sean O'Casey, Pygmalion (1912) Bernard Shaw, The Room (i960) Harold Pinter, Roots (1959) Arnold Wesker, The Ruffian on the Stair (1964) Joe Orton, The Rules of the Game (1919) Luigi Pirandello, The Ruling Class (1968) Peter Barnes, Saint Joan (1924) Bernard Shaw, Sawd (1965) Edward Bond, The Sea (1973) Edward Bond, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) David Mamet, Spring Awakening (1892) Frank Wedekind, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke (1948) Tennessee Williams, Ubu Rex (1896) Alfred Jarry, A View from the Bridge (1955) Arthur Miller, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wooip (1962) Edward Albee