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The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Henry IV, Part One. To Jun. 24, 2012.
Atlanta Shakespeare Company, As You Like It. To Jun. 24, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, The Merchant of Venice. To Nov. 23, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. To Jun. 16, 2012.
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Comedy of Errors. To Jul. 29, 2012.
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Internet Shakespeare Editions Incorporated: Board of Directors

We are grateful to the distinguished members of our Board of Directors for making their time available to assist the ISE in its mission to inspire a love of Shakespeare's works in a world-wide audience.

  • Michael Best, President. Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria.
  • Roberta Livingstone, Vice-President. Creative Director, Internet Shakespeare Editions.
  • Tim Walzak, Secretary. BC Regional Innovation Chair in Sport Technology, Camosun College.
  • Barbara Bailey. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bailard, Inc.
  • Anthony Dawson. Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia.
  • Linda Hardy. Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Victoria.
  • Michael Levy. Software Development Manager, Apple Canada, Vancouver.
  • Glynis Leyshon. Artistic Director, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre.
  • Peter Liddell. Professor Emeritus, Germanic and Russian Studies, University of Victoria.
  • Bruce More. Professor Emeritus, School of Music, University of Victoria.
  • Havind Sehmi, Acting Co-President and CEO, Innovation and Development Corporation, University of Victoria
  • Marnie Swanson. University Librarian, University of Victoria.
  • Bob Worth Executive Director, Finance for the University of Victoria (retired).
Michael Best
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Michael Best has promoted the ISE and the opportunities for publication in the new medium in papers at over thirty conferences in the last decade, on four continents. His electronic publications include the CD ROM A Shakespeare Suite, and the texts published on the ISE website in his role as Coordinating Editor. He was asked to write the chapter on electronic Shakespeare in Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide (OUP, 2003), and has been invited to contribute chapters appearing from the Modern Languages Association, University of Calgary Press, Blackwell, Lodz University Press, Brepols, and a forthcoming issue of College Literature. He has co-edited three special issues of the electronic journal Early Modern Literary Studies. In print he edited three books: The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus (Clarendon Press, Oxford); Gervase Markham's The English Housewife (McGill-Queens University Press), and a collection of correspondence to and from the Western Australian goldfields, A Lost Glitter (Wakefield Press). As administrator, he has chaired the Department of English at the University of Victoria three times, and was a founding member of three Provincial educational councils BC Council on Admissions and Transfers, BC Degree Program Review Committee, and the Council of the Open University of BC.
Roberta Livingstone
A professional writer and editor, Roberta Livingstone brings almost twenty years experience in writing, project management, strategic communications and graphic design to the Internet Shakespeare Editions. A graduate of the University of Victoria in Fine Arts and English, Livingstone has worked for a variety of organizations including non-profits and federal and provincial governments and has written almost every kind of document from ministerial speeches to judicial reports to cabinet documents for new legislation. A previous career as a childcare counsellor led to an ongoing interest in youth and family issues and a rewarding career as an investigative journalist specializing in education, family, and environmental issues. In her role as communications manager for the Attorney General Livingstone handled a portfolio which included victims of crime legislation and initiatives on prostitution and sexual assault; in this capacity she advised cabinet ministers, the premier's office and senior levels of government on public issues and announcements, sat on committee regarding joint initiatives, and managed provincial events. As Vice President of the ISE over the past ten years, Livingstone has helped define the ISE's goals, policies and organizational development, and as creative director she has supervised the design and navigation of the ISE website.
Tim Walzak
Dr. Walzak has been active in the Canadian research and technology community for more than twenty years. From 1998 to 2007, Dr. Walzak was been President and CEO of the University of Victoria Innovation and Development Corporation (IDC), the technology transfer office for UVic. He now occupies the BC Regional Innovation Chair in Sport Technology, Camosun College. More than twelve years of direct experience in developing models to transfer university research to the private sector has allowed Dr. Walzak to establish leadership credentials in a wide range of innovation related activities including basic research, experimental design, development of applications and prototypes, protection of intellectual property, identification of commercialization opportunities and establishment of spin-off companies in a broad range of science and technology areas. With more than twenty years of working at the interface between research and commercialization he has developed an extensive working knowledge of federal funding mechanisms, most notably NSERC, CFI, NRC IRAP and WED, and has facilitated more than 300 successful partnerships between universities, industry and governments. Dr. Walzak has extensive experience both in public lectures and effective proposal and report writing. Through IDC he is currently assisting several start-up technology companies by providing business strategy consultation, management input through Board representation and advice on intellectual property issues, and has now been actively involved in more than 45 companies started from university-based research activities. He is also a Board member for BC Innovation Council, Vice Chair of the Westlink Innovation Network Board and Past Chair of the Board of the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC).
Barbara Bailey
Barbara Bailey serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Bailard, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area investment management firm, where she manages the finance, human resources and operations functions of the firm. Prior to joining Bailard in 1995, she was an account manager with Watson Wyatt Worldwide and headed the San Francisco office of Credit Agricole, a bank headquartered in Paris. Barbara holds a BA in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a master of science in industrial relations from Loyola University of Chicago; and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She enjoys activities that take her outdoors, like running, backpacking, and fly fishing.
Anthony Dawson, Professor of English (emeritus) at University of British Columbia, has written four books on Shakespeare, Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion (1978), Watching Shakespeare (1988) and the volume on Hamlet for the Shakespeare in Performance series (1995), and (with Paul Yachnin) The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England (2001). His interest in performance history and textual theory has resulted in a series of articles and book chapters on such topics, and has informed his editorial work as well. He has edited Marlowe's Tamburlaine for the New Mermaids series and Troilus and Cressida for the New Cambridge Shakespeare. He is currently preparing, with Gretchen Minton, an edition of Timon of Athens for Arden Shakespeare (Third Series) and is slated to edit Macbeth for ISE.
Linda Hardy
Linda Hardy is Assistant Professor in the Theatre Department at the University of Victoria. After studying at Brock University and the University of Toronto, she received her professional training at The Goodman School of Drama and The Art Institute of Chicago. She specializes in acting, voice, speech, and directing, with particular interests in Shakespearean production and Asian Theatre. In the past decade she has directed seven plays for the Phoenix Theatre at the University of Victoria, including the first Asian Orion production, Fantastic, as well as Romeo and Juliet (the first play to be included in our database of Shakespeare in Performance), The Seagull and Amigo’s Blue Guitar. Linda was a member of the New Globe Theatre Actors’ Workshop in London, England, in 1995; a creative consultant for Maya Box Theatre in Bangkok in ‘96; and, an Artist in Residence for the 80th anniversary of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok in ‘97, where she directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Amongst many other plays, she has directed Twelfth Night and The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines.
Michael Levy
Michael Levy is Software Development Manager at Apple Canada in Vancouver. He has worked in both the academic and business worlds. In 1979, Dr. Levy obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and conducted his post-doctoral work with the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. It was there that he collaborated with Rod Burstall on the early implementations of an experimental programming language called HOPE. Dr. Levy was also a member of the Scientific Staff at Bell-Northern Research (now Nortel) and, in 1980, joined the computer science faculty at the University of Victoria. Concurrent to his academic duties, Dr. Levy served as a technical consultant for the Provincial Government of British Columbia in addition to several companies located in both Victoria and Vancouver. Dr. Levy joined NewHeights Software in 1999 where he oversaw the development of telephony and collaboration applications, and moved on to SchemaSoft in 2003. In 2001 he was appointed to the Science Council of BC in 2001 where he served for two terms.
Glynis Leyshon
Glynis Leyshon, Artistic Director of the Playhouse Theatre Company since 1997, directed the critically acclaimed Equus (for which she won a Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Direction), and most recently directed Morris Panych in his play Vigil and will co-direct and dramturg NINSTINTS by Bruce Ruddell in an important Playhouse/Belfry Theatre Play development initiative. Ms. Leyshon was previously Artistic Director of the Belfry Theatre in Victoria for eleven seasons. Other national directing credits include Bard on the Beach, the National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, the Grand Theatre and Tarragon Theatre. She has also frequently directed at Canada's Shaw Festival. Ms. Leyshon also has extensive experience directing musicals and opera, having worked with the Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Pacific Opera companies. She was also Head of the prestigious Banff Centre Opera Training Program for three seasons. In addition to her work with the Playhouse, Glynis has an active community and national profile. She has received the YWCA's Woman of Distinction Award and many British Columbians will recognize her as the host of the Knowledge Network's popular television series, By the Book.
Peter Liddell
Peter Liddell (MA, Edinburgh; PhD UBC) is Professor of German at the University of Victoria, and was the founding and continuing Academic Director of the UVic Humanities Computing & Media Centre (1986-2007). The Centre has been intimately involved in supporting the Internet Shakespeare Editions since their earliest days. Dr. Liddell came to humanities computing first through an interest in second language acquisition, in particular computer-aided learning and teaching. He has been a member of most senior University and Faculty computing committees, including the IT Planning committee, whose recommendations guide UVic's IT impetus still. He is currently also a member of the University Board of Governors.
Bruce More
An internationally acclaimed choral conductor, Bruce More has for 35 years been a major contributor to the musical life of Victoria. While studying for his Doctorate in Voice Performance and Conducting at Yale University in the late 60s, he conducted the first Yale University Women's Chorus in addition to 4 other ensembles. In 1968/69 he was a visiting guest conductor at Vassar College. Returning to his native B.C. in 1970, he founded the Music Department of Malaspina College and the summer choral programme of the Courtenay Youth Music Camp. Following his appointment to the School of Music at the University of Victoria in 1973 he was founding President of the Vancouver Island Opera Society (now Pacific Opera). For 16 years, he conducted the Victoria Choral Society, with whom he frequently guest conducted the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. He was President of the UVic Faculty Association for 3 years and from 1991-1993 represented university faculty from B.C. to the Provincial and Federal governments as President of CUFA/BC. In 1994 he founded the 70 voice Prima Choir, a UVic ensemble and since 1973 has conducted the UVic Chamber Singers throughout the world (138 cities in 33 countries). In 2006 he received the Herbert Drost award for his lifetime service to choral music in BC.
Marnie Swanson
Marnie Swanson is currently the University Librarian at the University of Victoria; a position she has held since 1988. Before moving to Victoria, she held a variety of positions including Area Head, Arts and Humanities at the University of Calgary, Corporate Partner in two different library and information consulting firms and Medical Librarian at the University of Alberta. She has taught library related courses at the University of Alberta, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. An active participant in professional associations, Marnie has held a variety of executive positions, including Director of the Canadian Association of special Libraries and Information Services (CASLIS); President of the Canadian Library Association (CLA); and President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL); Chair of the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL); and a member of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Board of Directors.
Bob Worth
Bob is the retired Executive Director, Finance for the University of Victoria and a current Trustee for its Faculty and Professional Employees pension plan, who brings a wealth of financial expertise to the Board. For six years he was a Director and Chair of the Board of Heritage Realty Properties, the company established by the University of Victoria to manage the properties generously bequeathed by Michael C. Williams. Bob’s career has taken him to Vancouver at Price Waterhouse, CANA Construction in Calgary and Laurentian (now AXA) Pacific Insurance in Vancouver. He has a keen interest in treasury and investment matters and has been an active member of the Victoria Foundation Finance Committee.