Diana Lynn Wallis OBE FISTD FRAD (born 11 December 1946) has been the artistic director of the

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for 22 years, from 1994 and will be retiring at the end of 2016. Wallis was born on 11 December 1946 in Windsor, the daughter of Dennis and Joan Wallis (née Gatcombe), and educated at Tonbridge Grammar School. Wallis was co-artistic director (with Valerie Wilder) at the

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, from 1987 to 1989. In 2015, Wallis was awarded an

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for services to dance.
In 2017 she was made a Fellow of the

(FRAD) Wallis is a board member of The Royal Ballet Benevolent Fund (aka The Dance Professionals Fund).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallis, Lynn 1946 births Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Tonbridge Grammar School