Belgrade Theatre will stop using the terms 'BAME', 'BAMER' and 'POC', saying they strip away individuality and reinforce an assumption that white British is the default.
The decision comes after a call from the Black Creative Network, a West Midlands collective, to do so.
Belgrade cited four main issues with these terms: they merge many ethnic gorups into a single identity, conflate physical characteristics with geographic identity, other non-white people and are wrongly used to describe individuals. For example, someone may be described as 'a BAME person', rather than 'a Black person'.
The theatre said these acronyms "may still appear in some official documents we are currently required to use, and that there are complex conversations still to be had about how this will affect the way we talk about our work".
"However, we hope that in publicly stating our intention to make this change, we will encourage other organisations to follow suit, ultimately building towards the eradication of the term across our industry."