Karen Fricker is adjunct professor of Dramatic Arts at Brock University and editorial advisor of Intermission Magazine. She has written and broadcast about theatre for outlets including the Toronto Star, The Irish Times, The Guardian, Variety, RTÉ, the BBC, and the CBC; and is the founding editor-in-chief of Irish Theatre Magazine (1998-2005). Her monograph The Original Stage Productions of Robert Lepage: Making Theatre Global won the Canadian Association of Theatre Research’s Ann Saddlemyer Award in 2022. Karen has been co-facilitating Youth Theatre Ireland’s Young Critics Programme since its inception in 2004, and is co-leader of a number of projects around equitable theatre criticism including the free online course Youareacritic.com. She is the knowledge mobilization lead for Staging Better Futures/Mettre en scène de meilleurs avenirs, a nationwide, SSHRC-funded partnership to address systemic inequities in theatre higher education in Canada.