White Male Actors Finding It Harder to Gain Work, Says Former Theatre Boss

Gregory Doran, who headed up the Royal Shakespeare Company for a decade, says more opportunities for under-represented groups is leading to less work.

King Charles III, (L), accompanied by former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company Gregory Doran, (C), tours the costume store during a visit to the Costume Workshop of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon on Feb. 18, 2020. Photo by Jacob King/POOL/AFP

White male actors are finding it harder to get parts as more opportunities in theatre are offered to under-represented groups, a former leading artistic director has said.

Gregory Doran—who led the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) from 2012 until last year—said those who had traditionally dominated theatre were now “finding themselves with very little work.”