Advice for a fair, safe and inclusive casting process
Casting and auditions
Auditioning safely
Staying safe at castings and auditions
Before and during the audition.
Vetting casting notices
Essential guide to verifying casting notices.
Casting questions card
Your essential guide to fairness in casting.
Code of conduct for auditions
All involved with the casting process have a responsibility to make reasonable endeavours.
Information on Non-Disclosure Agreements
Equity has deep concerns about the damaging impact of NDAs on our fight to eradicate harassment and abuse from the audio-visual industry.
A guide to working on shorts and festival circuit films
Protecting members’ legal rights.
Access for all
Guidelines for working with LGBT+ performers
Best practice guidelines for working with performers and industry professionals who identify as LGBT+
Casting guide for deaf, disabled and neurodiverse dancers
What you can do to remove barriers across your creative process.
Casting and working with autistic artists
How diversity and accessibility in the arts can be achieved for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Guide to good practice with BSL in the arts
Guidance for deaf actors and hearing actors with an acquired level of BSL whom should only ever be cast in hearing roles.
Self-tape & Zoom auditions guidance
Code of best practice for scripted drama and guidance on accessible auditions and self-tapes.
Advice for visually impaired actors
Be aware that blindness is a huge spectrum.
Join the campaign: Cast It Here
Too often, productions filming, rehearsing or being performed across the regions and nations of the UK don't look at the casting opportunities on their doorsteps. We know professional talent is available right across the UK. We want providing opportunities for local talent to be seen as a standard part of their casting process.