List of academic signatories by field

Current and former faculty: 903 verified.

Name, listed by field Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
Arts
Richard G. Kurman, M.A.

Art Historian, Educator

04/22/07
Prof. Kurt W. Lancaster, Ph.D.

Professor of Creative Media and Film, Northern Arizona University

01/05/18
Gilles Marsolais

Actor, director, drama teacher

12/30/11
Robert McGraw

04/13/10
James Meredith, M.F.A.

Faculty, University of California at Berkeley; Artistic Director, Sonos Handbell Ensemble

09/12/10
Siv Alice Meådal

08/19/13
Louise J.D. Miller, M.A.

California

10/01/20
Dr. David Montee, D. Phil.

Actor, Director, Theatre Instructor, Interlochen Center for the Arts (30 yrs); many awards; Distinguished Teacher, US Dept. of Ed. Presidential Scholars program

03/13/17
Prof. Dennis E. Montera, M.F.A.

Professor of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines

09/09/07
Cynthia Moore, M.F.A.

University art instructor

01/05/13
Mr. Gordon Ennis Moore, M.F.A.

Adjunct Professor of Art, Montclair State University

12/27/10
Dr. Mark Andrew Morris, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta. As Canada's most-performed librettist, I cannot believe the Stratford man was the author.

09/09/07
Robert E. Mrozowski

07/24/22
Ms. Puy Navarro, M.F.A.

Winner of the 3rd Prize of the MetLife Foundation USA Writing Competition "Our Voices" for writing "Else & Henry"

09/24/23
Dr. Vladislav Nekliaev, Ph.D.

Winner of Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize 2010

10/06/15
Mr. Philip John Notman

Convinced, chiefly by Alexander Waugh, that Edward de Vere is the true author.

08/10/23
Mr. Keith O'Brien

Roscommon

08/10/17
Mr. John David O'Donnell

Musician specialising in Renaissance & Baroque. Currently researching authorship candidate Henry Neville.

02/17/19
Mr. Jack Ofield

Emeritus Professor of Film, San Diego State University; veteran film/TV producer/director; Member, Directors Guild of America; Fellow, American Film Institute

04/17/16
Olu Oguibe, Ph.D.

Professor of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut

09/09/07
Mr. Tom Ordelman

Dutch writer & poet

09/09/07
Mr. Jonathan David Orton

09/10/07
Dr. Tony Page, Ph.D.

Lecturer in English Literature, Bangkok University, Thailand

11/29/12
Mr. Carl A. Palazzolo, M.F.A.

United States +1

12/20/22
Claudia Lynn Pirone, M.L.S.

Retired librarian and teacher

04/25/16
Dr. Richard Pohl, Ph.D.

Pianist

05/05/20
Charmaine Isolda Richards

Northamptonshire

11/19/21
Prof. Zoltan Roman, Ph.D.

Prof. Emeritus of Musicology, University of Calgary; cultural historian

05/01/11
Mr. Anthony Rooley

Anthony Rooley, LRAM, FRAM - director of 'The Consort of Musicke', Visiting Professor, Florida State University, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis

09/03/07
Mrs. Elaine B. Rosoff, M.A.

10/11/19
Michael D. Rubbo, M.A.

Director, "Much Ado About Something," award-winning documentary on the case for Christopher Marlowe; co-winner, Hoffman prize. Former lecturer on film, Harvard.

09/17/07
Dr. Leonard R. Rumery, J.D.

11/26/23
Dr. Giovanna Sansalvadore, Ph.D.

Wits University, Rhodes University, University of S. Africa

10/13/21
Walter Saunders, M.A.

Poet & ex-Prof. English, Univ. N-West, SA. Shakespeare always my special field. I've published 14 of the plays in modern English for schools and general public.

07/20/07
Jeremiah Paul Schiek, M.F.A.

Professor of Art, Published Illustrator, Writer and Graphic Novelist

01/21/22
Tom Schimmels, M.A.

Actor, Writer, Educator ...

12/01/22
Mr. Thomas Charles Secker

United Kingdom

11/26/19
Allan Richard Shickman, M.A.

Professor Emeritus, Art History, and published Shakespeare scholar (ELR, NQ, SEL); Mentioned in Arden King Lear, Oxford King Lear, and Arden Othello

09/23/07
Mrs. Bernita Bricker Smith, M.A.

05/31/11
Tamsyn Taylor

08/21/17
Mr. Michael Porter Tilley, M.M.

Musical Administrator, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, Chair of Vocal Coaching and Accompanying

01/04/19
Mr. David Graham Torrance

It would be the greatest literary miscarriage of justice to deny any genuine counter claim to the accepted and debatable authorship question.

06/02/12
Ian Stuart Warburton

12/01/16
Dr. James Michael Ward, Ph.D.

03/19/23
Dr. Steven Parris Ward, Ph.D.

Writer/Author

12/23/21
Mr. Jeff Warren

Actor/director/artist/teacher

05/11/16
Prof. Edmund Wilkinson, M.A.

Professional Actor, AEA and SAG-AFTRA (US)

09/07/20
Ms. K. Elaine Williams, M.A.

Lecturer. There are too many discrepancies in the authorised version

09/17/14
Ms. Robin P Williams

Author of "Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?", plus more than 50 computer and design books.

04/09/07
Dr. Tim van Gelder, Ph.D.

Principal Fellow, Philosophy, University of Melbourne

05/15/16

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