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Dateline: 12th June, 2011

Janet Suzman

Birthday Honours

A number of theatre people have received awards in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Veteran TV star Bruce Forsyth receives a knighthood for services to entertainment and to charity and actress Janet Suzman becomes a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

The honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) goes to Colin Firth, Michael Grandage, Peter James who until recently was Principal of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and director Christopher Morahan who did much work with the National Theatre in the seventies and eighties.

The OBE goes to Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bernard Cribbins and Graeme Garden whilst recipients of the MBE are:

Peter Armitage, for services to Amateur Theatre in West Yorkshire
Julia Donaldson, author and playwright, the writer of the hugely popular The Gruffalo which is almost continually touring. This week she was also appointed Children's Laureate
Dr Dorothy Heathcote, a very influential academic in the field of drama in education
Matthew Peacock, the Founder and Chief Executive of Streetwise Opera for services to Music and to Homeless People
Peter John Pullan, lately Chairman of StageText, for services to Deaf, Deafened and Hard of Hearing People
Lady Judith Steel for services to the Theatre in the Scottish Borders
Tim Webb, founder & artistic director of Oily Cart Theatre, for services to Drama for Children with Special Needs.

EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella also receives the MBE for her work in the prevention of knife crime. In 2008 her 16 year old half-brother Ben was stabbed to death in a London street.

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