Women of Will Biographies

TINA PACKER was born in England, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in the West End and on BBC television. She is one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts and is the founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, now one of the largest and most critically acclaimed Shakespeare festivals in North America.

Packer founded Shakespeare & Company in 1978 with the goal of creating a classical American Shakespeare company of the highest standard that holds language as the center of the theatrical experience. It is rooted in the ideals of the Elizabethans: inquiry, passion, love, poetry, physical prowess, balance, and harmony.

Recognized by more than 20 awards, honors and fellowships, she has twice received the Elliot Norton Award, as well as the state of Massachusetts’ highest cultural honor, The Commonwealth Award, in addition to Guggenheim and Bunting Fellowships. She has directed nearly every Shakespeare play. Packer’s recent onstage roles at Shakespeare & Company include Queen Gertrude in Hamlet (2006, 2008 national tour, and 2009), Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (2007), and the title role in Shirley Valentine (2009). She played Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Boston Publick theatre in the fall of 2009.

 

NIGEL GORE Shakespeare & Company: Claudius in Hamlet, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marc Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Lavache in All’s Well That Ends Well, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. Recent work: George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Ms. Packer at the Boston Publick, George Pye in Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones; Henry Carr in Travesties by Tom Stoppard at the Boston Publick. Seasons 2 and 3 of Brotherhood on Showtime.

 

ERIC TUCKER (Director) Regional directing credits: Stella Adler Theatre: Hamlet (w/ William Hurt). Trinity Repertory Company: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night. VCPA: Sanctuary (North American Premiere), Man of La Mancha. Redlands Shakespeare Festival: Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet. SFGT: Macbeth, Closer. Burning Coal: Watership Down (World Premiere). Beowulf: Angels in America Parts I & II, Saint Joan. Shakespeare & Company: Pinter’s Mirror.

 

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