¿Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab is Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK. She is a theatre scholar and historian with a focus on regional theatre histories. She has published several articles and chapters in this area and on early twentieth-century British and Irish theatre more broadly, including contributions to The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism in Contemporary Theatre (2023), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance: 1900-1950 (2024) and Sean O'Casey in Context (2025).