Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019

From high-profile actors and established producers to community champions of music and dance, members of the creative industries have been recognised for their contributions to Australian culture.
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The Queens Birthday Honours list was released this week with the arts and cultural sector once again well represented.

Prominent authors Sophie Cunningham, Di Morrissey and Charlotte Wood were given Member (AM) status while choreographer, dancer, director and filmmaker Meryl Tankard was made an Officer (AO) in the General Division.

The Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet, Li Cunxin was also a recipient of an Order of Australia (AO) for his ‘distinguished service to the performing arts, particularly to ballet as a dancer and as an Artistic Director, while Daryl Karp, Director of the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD) was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Karp has led MOAD for over six years and has been deputy chair of the Canberra Writers Festival since 2015. 

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts