List of notable signatories

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

Actor, author, director, producer; Artistic Director, Red Wine Cinema

President, St David's Welsh Society, DC; former president, World Affairs Council, Cincinnati; former programs director, UN Int’l. Training Center, Torino, Italy

Academy and BAFTA Award winner

Poet, author and actor. Winner of Royal Literary Magazine Award, Distinction of Excellence. Associate Dean and Primary Lecturer at Theoria School of Filmmaking.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley

Co-director Kinetic Energy Theatre Company

Visiting Professor, IE University; co-author, "Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001," Stanford University Press, 2010.

Poet, Critic, Novelist; M.Phil.; Ph.D. in American Poetry; Fulbright Scholar; Professor, Boise State U, Idaho; Hon Writing Fellow, Iowa U; numerous other awards

Artistic Director, Founder, The Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York (20th Anniversary, 2018); writer; numerous articles on music for NY Post, NY Times, etc.

#1 NY Times Bestselling Writer of movies, TV, comics, audio; licenses include Doctor Who, Spider Man, X Men, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Dracula, Superboy, etc.

Co-President & co-founder of The Little Film Company; Executive Producer, Richard III, starring Ian McKellen (1995), and Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins (1999)

British author and translator (MA Cantab, First Class Hons Eng Lit 1962); publications include nine novels, thirty-two poetry volumes, twenty-one translations

Prominent English composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. For details see www.david-matthews.co.uk, or enter my name at the Faber Music website.

American diplomat; many posts in Europe, Asia; Ambassador to Haiti; Director General, International Organization for Migration, 1998-2008; MA, Classics, Harvard

President Emeritus, National Press Foundation; former reporter, "The Washington Post" (worked on Watergate investigation); twice nominated for Pulitzer Prize

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

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.

Retired Circuit Judge; author of the acclaimed "Walden of Bermondsey" series. The case for Mr. Shakspere is very weak. "Reasonable doubt" is an understatement.

Poet, academic; retired professor, English Language & Lit, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in English, St Edmund Hall, Oxford; Fellow, English Association

Austrian poet and translator of literature from Russian and English into German (e.g. the complete sonnets of Edmund Spenser, works of Anna Akhmatova etc.)

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

Deputy Attorney General, Delaware, 24 years of service, Retired

Author of six books of poetry, incl. “Drive,” winner of the Acorn-Plantos Peoples Poetry Prize in 2010; host of the “Lit Live” reading series, Hamilton, Ontario

San Francisco trial attorney, Marin County Commissioner; former Associate Professor of Business Law and Political Science, American College of London