Paige Dickinson is associate professor in the Creative Arts Collegium at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her research focus is on pedagogy and professional development in the field of drama therapy. She is the recipient of the John Satterfield Outstanding Mentor Award.

Sally Bailey is a registered drama therapist, professor of theatre and director of the drama therapy program at Kansas State University. Her book Barrier-Free Theatre (Idyll Arbor, 2010) received the American Alliance for Theatre in Education's 2011 Distinguished Book Award. Her recent books include The Drama Therapy Decision Tree (co-authored with Paige Dickinson, Intellect, 2021), Drama in the Inclusive Classroom (Routledge, 2021) and Careers in Creative Arts Therapies (Routledge, 2021). A past president of the North American Drama Therapy Association, she is the recipient of the 2006 NADTA Gertrud Schattner Award and the 2018 NADTA Teaching Excellence Award.