List of notable signatories
Notable signatories: 130 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 | 
| Garth S. Bardsley, M.A. | Award-winning British opera director. Poet, lyricist, biographer of Anthony Newley. University lecturer. West end actor - erstwhile Phantom of the Opera | 08/20/25 | 
| 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 | 
| Dan Gordon | Screenwriter: The Hurricane (Denzel Washington), Wyatt Earp (Kevin Costner), Playwright: Irena's Vow, Terms of Endearment, Rain Man | 01/14/25 | 
| 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 | 
