Appointments and Honours
Hytner is on the Board of Trustees of the Royal Opera House. He is a patron of many organisations including HighTide Festival Theatre, the Shakespeare Schools Festival, Dance UK, Action for Children's Arts, Pan Intercultural Arts and Prisoners' Penfriends.
He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 2005, and was Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University in 2000-01.
Hytner was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama.
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