Opinion

Opinion with Ruth Phillips

Plus-size inclusivity training is crucial for drama schools says Ruth Phillips.

Is your body represented on stage and screen? This may depend on many interconnected factors, a key one of which is your body size and shape. To change the landscape of body diversity in the arts, there needs to be an assurance that people of all body sizes get access, opportunities, and encouragement in training. That will, in turn, help shape the industry overall.

I am a size-inclusivity consultant, and through DYCP funding, I have launched training and workshops for people running a room (directors, teachers, facilitators and so on) and those (students, actors, participants) within it, working across the arts to support, enable and empower plus-size performers and improve body standards as a whole.

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