Basil contributed to the stage entries of the database, working between July 2017 and December 2019. He researches on Harold Pinter and contemporary British drama and performance. He has contributed to The Theatre of Harold Pinter, Modern Drama, The Pinter Review and Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter. He has authored one book, The Late Harold Pinter: Political Dramatist, Poet and Activist, published in 2018. This study employs affect theory to refine and develop existing definitions of what makes Pinter’s work political. It is the first book-length study of Pinter’s later political dramas, poetry and activism. Basil also has research interests on how neoliberalism and austerity politics come to bear upon the dramatic arts. Prior to joining the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies team Basil taught in Theatre Studies and English programmes on the history of theatre, modern drama and contemporary British theatre and performance. Basil is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, at  Western University in Canada. 

William worked on the film, television and radio entries of the database, building on materials input by Billy Smart and Amanda Wrigley and researching and contributing further entries. He joined the project in 2019 and contributed bthrough to December 2020. He researches on twentieth-century literature and culture with a special interest in the literature of the Second World War. He completed his PhD in 2018 and, before joining the Pinter project, he was a Samuel Beckett Research Centre Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Reading. He has taught at the University of Reading and Oxford Brookes University. He publishes and presents regularly on the work of Samuel Beckett, with articles in Journal of War and Culture Studies, Journal of Beckett Studies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, and book chapters in several edited collections. His monograph, Samuel Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury, 2020), explores the effects of Beckett's war-time experiences on his work. He is the co-editor of Samuel Beckett and Europe with Niamh M. Bowe and Michela Bariselli (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), Beckett and Politics (Palgrave, 2021) with Helen Bailey, and The Poetry of Samuel Beckett (forthcoming) with James Brophy. He also works on post-1945 English poetry and has published on the poet-critic Donald Davie in Review of English Studies.  

Catriona contributed to the stage entries of the database, working between July 2017 and December 2019. Her research specialises in contemporary British and European playwriting, theatre history, historiography and archival studies, and contemporary Shakespearean performance and institutions. Before joining the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies project as a post-doctoral researcher, Catriona worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. She is currently co-editing and contributing to Harold Pinter: Stages, Networks, Collaborations for Bloomsbury Methuen’s Engage series, as well as contributing to collections on the #MeToo movement (for Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away, Intellect Books, 2021) and the playwright Dennis Kelly (Manchester University Press, 2021). Catriona’s work has been published in Studies in Theatre and Performance and presented at various conferences and symposia nationally and internationally.

Mark is an internationally recognised expert in the field of Pinter scholarship. He is the author of three books on Harold Pinter’s work, holds an executive role in the International Harold Pinter Society, and participated in advising Harold Pinter on – as well as assisting to construct – the web-site devoted to his work (http://www.haroldpinter.org/). He was the principle investigator on the Pinter: Histories and Legacies project and has been updating and contributing entries in the database since January 2020.