Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education and Research at Shakespeare's Globe and Visiting Research Fellow of King's College London. At the Globe, she is leading the research into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the new indoor Jacobean theatre. She is the author of Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama (2006); Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment (co-edited with Christie Carson, Cambridge, 2008); Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance (co-edited with Tiffany Stern, 2013); and Shakespeare and the Hand (forthcoming).