Lynn Wallis

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Diana Lynn Wallis OBE FISTD FRAD (born 11 December 1946) has been the artistic director of the Royal Academy of Dance for 22 years, from 1994 and will be retiring at the end of 2016.{{cite web |url=http://londondance.com/articles/news/lynn-wallis-artistic-director-of-the-royal-academy/ |title=Lynn Wallis, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance, to step down |website=LondonDance.com |date=2016-10-03 |accessdate=2016-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220233451/http://londondance.com/articles/news/lynn-wallis-artistic-director-of-the-royal-academy/ |archive-date=2016-12-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Snow |first=Georgia |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2016/royal-academy-of-dance-artistic-director-lynn-wallis-to-step-down-after-two-decades/ |title=Royal Academy of Dance artistic director Lynn Wallis to step down after two decades | News |newspaper=The Stage |date=2016-09-09 |accessdate=2016-12-10}}

Wallis was born on 11 December 1946 in Windsor, the daughter of Dennis and Joan Wallis (née Gatcombe), and educated at Tonbridge Grammar School.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Sleeman|title=The International Who's Who of Women 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J8xDWDqOkEC&pg=PA610|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-122-3|page=610}}

Wallis was co-artistic director (with Valerie Wilder) at the National Ballet of Canada, from 1987 to 1989.{{cite web|url=https://www.dancefund.org.uk/lynn-wallis-obe |title=Lynn Wallis OBE |website=Dancefund.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-12-10}}

In 2015, Wallis was awarded an OBE for services to dance.

In 2017 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Dance (FRAD)

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