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Franklin J. Hildy,, Director for The Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA)-Research Archive. is the chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Holds the Ph.D from Northwestern University and is a specialist in theatre architecture, theatre archaeology, historic stage technology and the use of computers in teaching theatre history. Since 1984 he has been an academic advisor to the International Shakespeare Globe Center in London where Shakespeare's theatre is currently being reconstructed. During the 1994-95 academic year Dr. Hildy served as a Humanities Administrator for the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington D.C.

Dr. Hildy is the author of Shakespeare at the Maddermarket: Nugent Monck and the Norwich Players(1986), and New Issues in the Reconstructions of Shakespeare's Theatre(1990). He has published a variety of articles on theatre space, Shakespearean staging techniques, and the theatre architecture of the Spanish Golden Age and is currently working on Theatre Archaeology: A Reconsideration of Theatre Architecture From the Greeks to the Romantics. Dr. Hildy has presented papers at international conferences in Canada, the Czech Republic, England and Japan, and has given numerous papers at national conferences including The Association for Theatre In Higher Education (ATHE), The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), The Modern Language Association (MLA), The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).

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