The National theatre has to be the place where artists come to make their best work, and we believe these artists should be a reflection of the diversity of this country.

Our ambition is to achieve greater diversity in the areas of gender, race, disability, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, faith and age.

As part of our plan to increase diversity on our stages by 2021, we set a number of publicly available targets to indicate our progress. As important as these targets are, they do not tell the whole story of the National’s work on diversity – we seek to create an inclusive organisation in which all people feel valued, can be themselves and feel that their voices are heard.