This section contains links to guidance on your rights and best practice in the casting and auditioning process.
Contact us if you have concerns about your treatment. Every conversation is confidential and we won’t take things further without your agreement.
Before and during the audition.
Essential guide to verifying casting notices.
Your essential guide to fairness in casting.
All involved with the casting process have a responsibility to make reasonable endeavours.
Equity has deep concerns about the damaging impact of NDAs on our fight to eradicate harassment and abuse from the audio-visual industry.
Protecting members’ legal rights.
Best practice guidelines for working with performers and industry professionals who identify as LGBT+
What you can do to remove barriers across your creative process.
How diversity and accessibility in the arts can be achieved for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Guidance for deaf actors and hearing actors with an acquired level of BSL whom should only ever be cast in hearing roles.
Code of best practice for scripted drama and guidance on accessible auditions and self-tapes.
Be aware that blindness is a huge spectrum.
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.