Farah Karim-Cooper is Professor of Shakespeare Studies, King's College London and Co-Director of Education at Shakespeare's Globe, where she has worked for over sixteen years. Farah has recently served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America and is on the Advisory Council for the Warburg Institute and the Council for the Society of Renaissance Studies. She led the architectural enquiries into early modern theatres at Shakespeare's Globe, overseeing the research into the design and construction of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the Globe's indoor Jacobean theatre. She has written two Shakespearean scholarship books published by Arden, and published over 40 chapters in books, reviews and articles and is a General Editor for Arden's Shakespeare in the Theatre series.