Producing Producers

I collaborated with Rafia Hussain (Independent Producer), Jessica Bowles (Principal Lecturer in Creative Producing at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Helen Jeffreys (Executive Director and Joint CEO at Tara Theatre) on the project, Producing Producers: Enhancing career development and training opportunities for British Theatre Producers from the Global Majority, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We surveyed and interviewed producers to identify the barriers and challenges faced by racially minoritised theatre producers, and held a focus group with 25 producers from across the UK to develop policy recommendations to overcome them. The report offers a detailed analysis of the state of theatre producing in the UK, and sets out a clear and actionable plan for change. You can read it at the link above, and find out more on Central’s website, in an article about the research by Nadine White in the Independent, and another by Georgia Luckhurst in The Stage.