List of notable signatories
Notable signatories: 125 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 |