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This Above All: Shakespeare & Co’s Tina Packer Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Tina Packer of Shakespeare & Company with her Douglas N. Cook Lifetime Achievement award.
Shakespeare & Company
Tina Packer of Shakespeare & Company with her Douglas N. Cook Lifetime Achievement award.

Tina Packer is the Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company. Since the Lenox, Massachusetts theater group was created in 1978, she’s directed all of the Bard’s plays, and taught his work at Columbia University and written multiple books on the famed English playwright. In January, Packer won the Shakespeare Theatre Association’s Douglas N. Cook Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual conference in Prague. She spoke with WAMC about what winning the award means to her.

Josh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018, following stints at WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Western Massachusetts, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. His free time is spent with his cat Harry, experimental electronic music, and exploring the woods.
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