The National Theatre’s mission is to make world-class theatre, for everyone. The National Theatre creates and shares unforgettable stories with audiences across the UK and around the world. On its own stages, on tour, in schools, on cinema screens and streaming at home, it strives to be accessible, inclusive and sustainable.
The National Theatre empowers artists and craftspeople to make world-leading work, investing in talent and developing new productions with a wide range of theatre companies at its New Work Department. Our nation thrives on fresh talent and new ideas, so the National Theatre works with young people and teachers right across the UK through performance, writing and technical programmes to ignite the creativity of the next generation.
Together with communities, the National Theatre creates ambitious works of participatory theatre in deep partnerships that unite theatres and local organisations – showing that nothing brings us together like theatre.
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DIVERSITY
As the National Theatre we want to be a theatre for everyone, where inclusivity and accessibility are paramount. This begins with the work on our stages and our responsibility to tell stories that represent the whole country, that resonate with the wider national conversation and from a broad and diverse range of voices.
Setting a culture where there is more representation in the work force, on the stage and in our programming and where staff and freelancers can succeed and thrive has been a central plank of our vision for the National Theatre. Our ambition is to achieve greater diversity in the areas of gender, race, disability, sexuality, socio-economic background faith and age. To make the National Theatre an irresistible place to work where everyone who engages with us has a strong sense of belonging.
As we develop our next three year business plan, which will crucially address how we rebuild post covid, culture change is one of our core strategic priorities. We want to embed diversity and inclusion in everyone’s objectives and promote an open and confident culture in the workforce where talented individuals of all backgrounds can thrive and contribute to the success of the National Theatre. We have a very strong sense that the next stage of our inclusion journey must involve increased investment of time and money and be driven from within the National Theatre, led by the Executive and supported fully by our Board.
We believe that key to making long lasting change will be building senior capacity in both a new People function and a new Culture lead. Bringing in-house expertise to work closely with our Executive Director to drive and support culture change.