List of notable signatories
Notable signatories: 129 verified.
| Name | Position and affiliation, or personal comment | Date signed |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver Pookrum | Founder of the Pookrum Playhouse and the African-American Theater Lab |
01/07/16 |
| Douglas Post | Playwright, Composer and Lyricist; Founding Member of the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble; Instructor at the University of Chicago Graham School. |
06/17/21 |
| Christopher McKenzie Priest | Author of more than twenty novels and story collections, winner of James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award and the World Fantasy Award. |
06/28/22 |
| Dr. Luke Prodromou, Ph.D. | MA, Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham; PhD, Applied Linguistics, U. of Nottingham; author of 20+ books; co-author of award-winning "Dealing with Difficulties." |
08/29/13 |
| Daniel Reitz, M.F.A. | Playwright, Screenwriter; recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, residencies; plays include Urban Folk Tales, which he adapted as the feature film Urbania. |
08/28/22 |
| Mr. David Lea Robbins, J.D. | Author of 15 novels and 4 plays; Writer in Residence, College of William & Mary, 2007-2009; Visiting Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010-present |
08/16/19 |
| Steven M. Roth, J.D. | Attorney, author of acclaimed novels MANDARIN YELLOW, THE MOURNING WOMAN, THE COUNTERFEIT TWIN, NO SAFE PLACE and NO PLACE TO HIDE, DEATH IN THE FLOWERY KINGDOM |
03/07/20 |
| 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 |
| Prof. Don Rubin | Editor, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre; Former Chair, Dept. of Theatre; Former Director, Grad. Program in Theatre Studies, York University, Toronto |
11/15/09 |
| Sir Mark Rylance | Actor; Artistic Director, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 1995-2006; Associate Artist, Royal Shakespeare Company; Chairman, The Shakespearean Authorship Trust. |
04/02/07 |
| Prof. Bernd E. H. A. Schuenemann | Professor Emeritus; Dr honoris causa mult; Director, Institute for Lawyer's Law; former Chair, Criminal Law, Philosophy, Sociology of Law, University of München |
04/25/16 |
| Mike Scott | Singer, songwriter, artist, author; founder & guitarist, The Waterboys; wrote ‘The Whole of The Moon’; Fellow, Findhorn Foundation; Ivor Novello Award recipient |
05/25/21 |
| Prof. Jack M. Shuttleworth, Ph.D. | Professor of English, Emeritus, United States Air Force Academy; long time Oxfordian; editing the Oxfordian edition of Hamlet. |
04/07/09 |
| Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D. | Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis; Sir Francis Galton Award for the Study of Creativity, 1996. |
04/07/07 |
| Gary K. Sloan, M.F.A. | Former head of Catholic University of America MFA Acting program and actor in 26 of Shakespeare's plays. |
07/22/24 |
| Mr. Edward Smith | Former CEO, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Simon Rattle, Music Director) and of Toronto and Gothenburg (Gustavo Dudamel, Music Dir.) Symphony Orchestras |
09/17/18 |
| Frank-Patrick Steckel | German theatre director (Hoffmann, Shakespeare und das Deutsche Theater im XX. Jahrhundert) |
09/29/14 |
| John Paul Stevens | Justice, U.S. Supreme Court |
07/01/09 |
| Prof. Peter A. Sturrock, Ph.D. | Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University; author, "AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question" |
03/19/13 |
| Prof. Carol Symes, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of History, Theatre, Medieval Studies, Classics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (theatre historian-practitioner) |
09/17/21 |
| Geir Håvard Uthaug, M.A. | Norwegian writer/poet/translator; biographer of William Blake & Henrik Wergeland; translator of Blake, Conrad, Shakespeare (Richard II), others; numerous awards |
04/19/16 |
| Dr. Bessel A. Van der Kolk, M.D. | Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; author, "The Body keeps the Score," NY Times best seller 117 weeks, translated into 36 languages |
01/25/21 |
| Prof. Andreas von Arnauld | Director, Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, University of Kiel, Germany, founded in 1914 |
02/05/16 |
| David Rains Wallace, M.A. | Nature writer and conservationist; author of twenty books, including “The Monkey’s Bridge” and “The Klamath Knot,” winner of numerous literary awards and honors |
09/29/14 |
| Mr. Alexander Evelyn M. Waugh | Author of several books, including "Time", "God", "Fathers & Sons", "House of Wittgenstein"; Editor, 42 Vol. "Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh", OUP (forthcoming) |
07/02/12 |
| Mr. Robert Wolf, M.A. | American writer and journalist; recipient of Bronze Medal Award for radio commentary, Sigma Delta Chi Award, both from the Society of Professional Journalists |
04/28/16 |
| Stephan Patrick Wolfert, M.F.A. | Actor/Writer/Director, former US Army Officer; founder of DE-CRUIT, which uses Shakespeare to heal trauma for veterans; creator of award-winning show Cry Havoc! |
01/28/25 |
| Dr. Alan L. Woods, D. Phil. | Emeritus Director, Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University; Central Ohio Theater Critics Circle Roy Bowen Lifetime Achievement Award |
06/26/16 |
| Mr. Michael York, M.A. | Actor and author, "A Shakespearean Actor Prepares" |
09/27/07 |