List of notable signatories

Notable signatories: 119 verified.

Name Position and affiliation, or personal comment Date signed
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
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
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

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