Your reports Find reports Is colour-blind casting a good idea? Is colour-blind casting a good idea? Convener(s): Daud Shah Participants: Tamsin Shoale, Stella Duffy, Graham Moharen, Monique Sterling, Pui Fan Lee, Alex, Willie While Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations: Opinions differed Risk of tokenism therefore work on ability only Have to fight for what you want Writers should specify all race characteristics Director to keep in mind, is there a possibility to cast this non-white Many public funded bodies (RSC, NT) do successfully cross-cast and this is much more possible in theatre than in film and works! There is lots of new talent rising in the black and asian community that is not being tapped eg in the east end – how can we do this? There are some good ‘Ethnic’ productions being produced but since there are a smaller number , the bad ones stand out? Time will change The 2001 conference caused a big change in an institutionally racist organisation