Lenox High School Names Top Students For 2012

10:52AM / Saturday, June 09, 2012Print Story | Email Story

LENOX, Mass. — Michael Knybel, principal of Lenox Memorial Middle and High School, has announced that Christopher Bravo and Lindsey Moran have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, for the 2012 graduating class.

Both students will speak at graduation ceremonies on Sunday, June 10, at 1 p.m. at Tanglewood.

Bravo, son of Albert and Janis Bravo of Lenox, is an accomplished scholar-athlete. He has played on the varsity soccer, basketball and baseball team, serving as captain for the soccer and basketball teams. In addition, he is a published scholar, with his "Union Membership Policies, Technological Innovation, and the Homestead Strike of 1892" apearing in the Concord Review. He has also been involved in Peer Education since 10th grade and has served the wider community with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.

He has received the Yale Book Award, the Alexis De Tocqueville Award and the Massachusetts Student Athlete Citizenship Award. In the fall, Bravo plans to attend Williams College, where he will be majoring in chemistry with a focus in biochemistry.

Moran, daughter of Michael and Janice Moran, also from Lenox, is also a talented student and athlete. She has played varsity and club soccer since eighth grade, was captain of the varsity team this past season and having earned the Sports, Citizenship and Scholarship Award and the Sportsmanship Team Award.
When she isn't involved in sports, Moran is actively involved in the Evergreen Club, working on the environment and SAVE — Students Against Violent Engagement — working on improving the lives of others around the world.

She has received the Wellesley College Book Award and the University of Rochester Xerox Award for Innovation and Information Technology. Moran also plans to attend Williams College, where she will be majoring in pre-med and chemistry.

Both students are members of the National Honor Society.

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Great Barrington Public Theater Appoints Artistic Director

09:57AM / Monday, December 29, 2025

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Great Barrington Public Theater announced that Associate Artistic Director Judy Braha will now join Jim Frangione at the helm as Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater.

"We at Great Barrington Public Theater are thrilled that Judy Braha will assume the role of Artistic Director alongside myself. I couldn't have asked for a better partner to help advance the interests of the theater as we move into the next phase of growth as the region's premiere developmental theater," Founder & Artistic Director Jim Frangione said. "Judy brings a tremendous amount of experience and value to our company and has, in just a few short years, grown and greatly enhanced GB Public Theater's signature program, Berkshires Voices, where playwrights develop their work, leading to public readings and in some cases workshops and full productions. I look forward to working more closely with Judy to select the next generation of plays to be presented under the GB Public banner. It's a "Bear" of a job! But we feel great about the direction of our theater."

Judy Braha joined the GB Public artistic leadership team in 2023 as the Associate Artistic Director after 2 years directing for the company. She has since then been collaborating with Founder and Artistic Director Jim Frangione on the selection of new work for readings and full productions in the summer season. Her impressive portfolio of credits and accomplishments strengthened Great Barrington Public's creative programming and offered new perspectives to the body of works and events produced each year.

Judy Braha has been a career director, actor, teacher and artist for social justice for over four decades with directorial credits in theaters and universities throughout New England. She led the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University's School of Theater, retiring in 2022 after 29 years of service at BU.

"Judy has the strength of commitment, leadership and passion for theater and how it affects communities that fit hand-in-glove with our founding mission and core beliefs," Founder and Producing Director Deann Halper Simmons explains. "Her artistic integrity, sense of stage esthetic and ability to make important choices that craft life from the script continues to be a great asset to our company and growth."

"Judy's distinguished artistic voice has significantly contributed to the exceptional growth of GB Public in recent years," Managing Director Serena Johnson added. "We are truly excited to have her stepping into this leadership role in the 2026 season."

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