White male actors ‘can’t find work’, claims former RSC boss Gregory Doran

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy White male actors are struggling to land roles in theatre, according to the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He cast the first disabled actor to play Richard III, cast female actors as male characters in a 2018 production of Troilus and Cressida and introduced the RSC’s first season of female-only directors. Doran’s notable productions include Macbeth starring Antony Sher, as well as Hamlet in 2008, starring Doctor Who actor David Tennant and Olivier and Tony Award-winning theatre veteran Sir Patrick Stewart. King Charles and Gregory Doran at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2020 It found that in those five years, the diversity of the student population in 15 of the top drama schools had improved by 7.5 percentage points from 14 per cent in 2016 to 21.5 per cent in 2019-20.