About Us

Natd is a non-profit making organisation. It is run by a committee of members, who come from a variety of drama backgrounds including primary and secondary schools, theatre in education, and drama freelance practioners. Our members come from across the UK and many from overseas. The aim of the association is to support and promote drama as part of a full and balanced education for all.

The National Association for the Teaching of Drama argues for a broader, richer, more human curriculum. To this end NATD continues to call for the repeal of the Eductaional Reform Act (ERA). Drama in Education, as a method of artistic enquiry in to the social world, stands in direct opposition to attempts to use education as a way of processing young people to meet the demands of the economy: to use Edward Bond's phrase 'a world of means without ends'.