Dr. Ian M. Borden is an Associate Professor with the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska. His scholarship focuses on translation, early modern European theatre, and historical and current methods of performance including stage combat. An active fight director, he has taught or choreographed stage violence in Canada, the USA, the Caribbean and Ireland, including the North American premier of The River and the Mountain in Washington, DC. As an actor, he has been seen on stages across Canada and the USA, most recently at the Black Hills Theatre, the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival, Pigeon Creek Shakespeare in Michigan and the Nebraska Repertory Theatre. Highlights as a director include The Tempest for Capitol Shakespeare in Bismarck, ND, and Agravio, the world premiere of his adaptation of Ana Caro’s seventeenth century play, Valor, Agravio y Mujer, for the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. He has a BA from Simon Fraser University, an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a PhD from Florida State University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre.

Sarah Imes, MFA, is an actress, director and author who lectures on non-North American theatrical traditions. She received her formal training at Nebraska Wesleyan, California State University, Fullerton and the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. Highlights of her career in the theatre are performing and directing in Hong Kong, Italy, Great Britain, Washington, DC and Off-Broadway in New York City. Her book Stage Warriors: Women on the Front Lines of Dangerous Drama showcases women who use theatre to protest war, violence, and abuse in some of the world’s most volatile regions.