Don Taylor (1936-2003) was a playwright and poet, and a director of theatre, television and radio plays. He worked as drama director at the BBC, and between 1960 and 1990, he directed nearly a hundred television plays. He translated and directed for BBC Television the Theban plays of Sophocles - Oedipus the King, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus. He followed this with translations of three Euripides war plays - Iphigenia at Aulis, The Women of Troy and Helen. He was co-director of Compass Theatre for while and set up First Writes Radio with Ellen Dryden. Don Taylor's many stage plays include The Roses of Eyam, The Exorcism, Daughters of Venice, Brotherhood, When the Actors Come, Retreat from Moscow, When the Barbarians Came and his last play The Road to the Sea.

David Bullen is a Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK where he has taught since 2013. He is a theatre director, writer, and academic, specializing in the histories of feminist theatre making as well as feminist and queer adaptations of canonical texts. He has published work on feminist theatre making and adaptation in theatre and film in a range of internationally reaching journals and edited collections; he is the author of Greek Tragedy as 21st Century British Theatre: Why, What, How.