Dawn Jane Sanders is a New Zealand theatre scholar, and the founder and current
CEO
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of the
Shakespeare's Globe Centre
300px, The reconstructed Globe in London
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Shakespeare Globe Centre Canada
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New Zealand. She received the 2006
Sam Wanamaker Award
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for her foundation of this centre.
In the
1992 New Year Honours
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, Sanders was awarded the
Queen's Service Medal
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for community service. In the
2013 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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, for services to theatre.
References
External links
Shakespeare's Globe Centre New Zealand
Living people
New Zealand academics
Recipients of the Queen's Service Medal
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Year of birth missing (living people)
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New Zealand theatre people