Since 2014, Gilli Bush-Bailey and I have been researching Tonic Theatre’s Advance Programme, which works with leading arts organisations to address the inequalities by examining the causes of gender imbalance and supports them to find ways of ‘making aspirations for equality a reality’ and. In 2015 Lisa Woynarski joined our research team and together we have considered, debated and celebrated the discussions and huge enthusiasm for change expressed by all the companies who formed part of the 2014 and 2016 cohorts.