List of notable signatories

Notable signatories: 121 verified.

Name Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Mr. Joseph Adler

Producing Artistic Director, GableStage; winner of numerous awards for theatre & film directing, including a Clio and eleven Carbonell Awards for Best Director

04/16/16
Prof. Peter Atterton, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, San Diego State University; Ph.D. from University of Essex, England.

04/09/18
Alan K. Austin

Producer of documentary "The Shakespeare Mystery," Frontline (PBS). Author of novels "The Adagio" and (due in 2011) "A Walking Shadow" (involving Edward DeVere)

09/10/07
Prof. Babette Babich, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, NYC

08/19/12
Mr. Matthew Eliot Ball

Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. Shakespearean roles danced: Romeo, Lysander, Polixenes

07/17/21
James M. Bennett, M.B.A.

BFA in Theater; former artistic director, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Southern Utah; son of former U.S. Senator Robert Bennett (who first made me an Oxfordian)

05/18/18
Mr. Samuel Blumenfeld

Author of ten books on education in America, including "Alpha-Phonics" and "How to Tutor;" author of "The Marlowe-Shakespeare Connection" (McFarland, 2008)

09/09/07
Prof. Daniel Jean Noël Bougnoux, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy (ret.), Stendhal University; author of 16 books on aesthetics, literature, communication; editor, Aragon's complete works in La Pléiade

09/29/14
Joan Bray, M.Ed.

Member, Missouri Senate 2003-2010, Missouri House of Representatives 1993-2002 (Term-limited from both bodies); Director, Consumers Council of Missouri, 2013-16

08/17/17
Mrs. Helena Brodin Friberg

Swedish actress of The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Stockholm; appeared in more than 40 films and television shows, 1960 - 2000; co-author, “Täcknamn Shakespeare”

10/20/07
Prof. Edward I. Brodkin, Ph.D.

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor Emeritus of History, Connecticut College, New London, CT, USA

04/28/16
Dr. William J. Bullock, Ph.D.

Professor of Music Emeritus, Columbus (Georgia) State University; Executive Director, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA

11/03/11
Ms. Sophy Burnham

Bestselling author of 13 books and award-winning plays, with works translated into more than 20 languages, and many millions of copies sold.

07/05/07
Mr. David Burrows-Sutcliffe, LL.M.

British attorney, specialist in emergency preparedness/investigations of major incidents; classically trained actor; played leading roles in Shakespearean plays

03/20/22
Mr. Michael William Cecil

8th Marquess of Exeter, 17th Earl of Exeter, 18th Baron Burghley

04/24/07
Charles Champlin

Former Arts Critic Emeritus, Los Angeles Times; founding member of the Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable of Los Angeles.

04/17/07
Mr. Thomas Jewell Coad

Former President, Washington Newspaper Publishers Association

11/03/11
Norman Cohan

Director of The Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, the largest privately owned historical manuscript collection in the world

11/19/18
Prof. Roberto Colombo, Ph.D.

Professor of Cytology, University of Milan; internationally-recognized leader in the field; former Visiting Fellow, Warwick University Developmental Biology Lab

03/29/16
Prof. Jean Patrick Connerade, Ph.D.

Emeritus Professor of Physics, Imperial College, London; President, European Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters; Ohrid Academy’s World Prize for Humanism, 2018

06/22/20
Keir C. Cutler, Ph.D.

Actor, playwright; doctorate in theatre. Adapted Mark Twain's "Is Shakespeare Dead?" Performed it across Canada, and it was televised nationally.

09/09/07
Mr. Howard Charles Dando, M.A.

Broadway Producer and Director; Founder and Director of Stars of American Ballet; Producer and Director, PBS and ABC Arts; Artistic Director, New World Festival

04/23/09
Mr. Ron Song Destro, M.F.A.

Kennedy Center Award-winning playwright. Artistic Director, Oxford Shakespeare Company. Former university professor. Academic Fields both theatre & English lit.

05/20/18
Dr. Alexandre R. Diaconu, Ph.D.

Composer-conductor, Theatre Director, Teacher; M.A., Sorbonne; Ph.D., National University of Film and Theatre, Bucharest; Founder and Headmaster, Ecole Broadway

07/27/16
Dr. Richard Smith Dixon Jr., Ph.D.

Head, Department of Modern and Classical Languages (1998-2019); Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia

01/09/20
Dr. Jeffery W. Donaldson, Ph.D.

Professor, Dept. of English, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Poet and Author of “Slack Action” (2013), “Echo Soundings” (2014), “Missing Link” (201

04/27/16
Mr. Ben Donenberg

Artistic Director, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles; Juilliard graduate; Presidentially-appointed and US Senate-confirmed Member, National Council on the Arts

04/30/16
Prof. Allen R. Dyer, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC; former chairman of departments of psychiatry at two med schools

09/29/14
Prof. Henrik Eger, Ph.D.

Editor: DramaAroundTheGlobe.com; Producer-director: Multilingual Shakespeare, London; Retired English professor; German Translator, MLK’s Nobel Peace Prize mail

05/11/16
Peter Eisner

Author and Journalist; former editor and reporter, Washington Post, Newsday, Associated Press; wrote award-winning books The Freedom Line and The Italian Letter

04/28/16
Roland Emmerich

Film Director, Producer, Writer. I have serious doubts about the Stratford man's claim to the authorship of the plays attributed to him.

10/01/07
Mrs. Aurore Evain

Director, author, actor; noted for research on theatrical female heritage (“Matrimoine”); directed “Mary Sidney, Alias Shakespeare”, Théâtre de l’Épée de Bois

11/05/22
Mr. Louis Fantasia

President, Deep Springs College. Personally, I believe Shakespeare is Shakespeare; but I welcome the discussion.

04/30/07
Dr. Luigi F. Ferrari

Chairman, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani [National Institute of Verdian Studies, Parma, Italy]; former superintendent of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation

07/19/21
Prof. James Fisher, M.F.A.

Head, Department of Theatre, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

09/22/10
Robin Fox

University Professor of Social Theory, Rutgers University; Founder, Department of Anthropology at Rutgers; Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

04/11/07
Richard France, Ph.D.

Playwright, Film/Drama critic, Author of “Orson Welles on Shakespeare,” the Choice Award-winning “The Theater of Orson Welles,” “Obediently Yours, Orson Welles”

08/13/17
Mr. Gosta Friberg

Swedish writer, poet and translator; co-founder of the Writers' Centre; former editor, Lyrikvännen, winner of numerous awards; co-author, "Täcknamn Shakespeare"

10/20/07
Ms. Emma Frost

British TV writer and producer; nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards for “The White Queen;” also known for her work on the television series "Shameless"

09/06/23
Mr. Mark A. Fury, J.D.

Attorney; former mayor, Plainfield, NJ; member, U.S. presidential delegation to 1995 elections in Haiti; student of Shakespeare and authorship for over 40 years

02/27/22
Dr. Graeme Garrard, Ph.D.

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), Senior Lecturer, School of European Studies, Cardiff University

11/14/11
Mr. Antonio Gervasoni, M.A.

Peruvian Composer, Professor of Composition; over 50 compositions, including incidental music and soundtracks for eight Peruvian feature films; numerous awards.

01/09/24
Prof. Jack A. Goldstone, Ph.D.

Sociologist/Historian; Hazel Professor of Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University; author/editor of 13 books and 150 articles

07/28/20
Mr. Art Goodtimes

Poet, journalist and Green Party elected official in Colorado. Former San Miguel County Commissioner (1996-2016); Western Slope Poet Laureate (2011-13)

12/17/17
Mrs. Jepke Goudsmit

Co-director Kinetic Energy Theatre Company

12/15/11
Mr. Simon Gribben, M.B.A.

Award-winning writer, producer, director, editor of television news; several Emmys as a producer of specials, news series and sports series; five films in MoMA

04/28/16
Ms. Jeannine Annette Grizzard, M.A.

M.A., Renaissance Drama, University of Warwick; M.A., Philosophy, Georgia State University; current Artistic Director, Ashland Contemporary Theatre, OR

02/17/12
Prof. Hans Gutzmann, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Charité Berlin, Germany; President, German Society for Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

09/29/14
Mr. Sebastian Harcombe

Course Director, BA Acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London (RADA)

07/20/08
Mr. Christopher L. Harris, M.F.A.

Professor of Theatre, Willamette University; Former President, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Chicago; Meritorious Achievement Awards, Kennedy Center/ACT Festival

11/02/13

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