Racism ‘baked in’ to theatre world as white workers paid 20% more, damning report finds

Getty

The theatre world has a racial pay gap, with white producers paid 20 per cent more than Black and Asian colleagues, a damning report has found.

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Tara Theatre study surveyed 187 theatre producers and found “an increased likelihood of poor representation for lower socioeconomic backgrounds in performing arts and plentiful evidence of continuing institutional racism in the theatre sector”.