Director of education at Shakespeare's Globe, Farah Karim-Cooper, has won the 2024 Sam Wanamaker Award for work increasing the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare.
Karim-Cooper, who is the author of The Great White Bard, received the award in recognition of her 20 years' service at the Globe. Alongside her existing role, she was recently announced as the new director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington.
She said: ‘I began at Shakespeare's Globe in 2004, where one of my tasks involved developing the library and archive. Those archives, containing Sam Wanamaker's recorded conversations, show a founder committed to scholarship, which inspired me.
‘I saw so much potential for academic research at the Globe that I spent the next 19 years working to bring academics and artists together to share knowledge, create accessible scholarship for the public and build a welcoming and inclusive research environment for students and future scholars. Our research and collections centre, I hope, will be the culmination of these collaborative endeavours, for which, along with this award, I will forever be grateful.’
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