Bree Hadley is Associate Professor in Drama at Queensland University of Technology. Her research on representations of disability in contemporary, pop cultural, and public space performance, and spectators' responses to these representations has appeared in Theatre, Social Media and Meaning Making (2017), Disability Public Space Performance and Spectatorship: Unconscious Performers (2014), and numerous performance and media studies journals.

Donna McDonald is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with Griffith University, art therapist and artist. Her publications include two books, Jack's Story (1991) and The Art of Being Deaf: a memoir (2014) and chapters in several books including Complicated Grief (2013), Deaf Epistemologies (2012), Literature and Sensation (2009), and A Revealed Life: Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir (2007). McDonald regularly exhibits her paintings and mixed-media works in art shows.