Al Vincent, Jr. is Actors' Equity Association's executive director.
Appointed executive director in 2022, Vincent brings decades of experience of labor activism to Equity. Taking the helm at a pivotal time for the arts industry, he immediately doubled down on growing the union, expanding Equity’s capacity for both internal and new organizing campaigns.
Vincent’s role as executive director is to manage the development of national policy, establish goals and carry out Equity's strategic plan. He works closely with Equity's council, the union's governing body, to establish these priorities and supervises the national staff in their execution. As the lead member of staff, he oversees the collective bargaining process for more than 40 national and regional contracts. He also serves as lead negotiator for the union’s two biggest agreements with The Broadway League, Production (Broadway and Sit-Downs) and Touring, and the union’s largest single-employer agreement with Disneyland. He is the union's representative and lead spokesperson with the media, labor, bargaining partners and government officials. Vincent has magnified the voice of workers as a founder of the groundbreaking Actors’ Equity Political Action Committee (PAC), for which he also serves as Treasurer. He is the first Black executive director of Equity in its history.
Vincent is from a multi-generation union family and has dedicated his career to the labor movement. He rose quickly through the 1.3-million-member American retail union UFCW, from organizer to senior vice president. Al was heralded for his work at UFCW not only for his work within local unions and labor management, but for his role in forging community service and political action campaigns.
Beyond his work as Equity’s executive director, Vincent is proud to be involved with a number of industry and labor movement nonprofit organizations, sitting on the board of the Actors’ Equity Foundation, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Entertainment Community Fund, Black Theater United 7G Committee and the Administration Committee of the Tony Awards, as well as serving as a trustee for the Equity-League Benefit Funds and the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
Vincent is dedicated to many causes outside of his work in the labor movement. Notably, he founded and chaired Empower PAC, a non-partisan political action committee that supports candidates and campaigns that benefit progressive causes and working families. He also served on the board of directors for the Keystone Research Center for Public Policy and the advisory board of Uplift solutions, and he was president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He also co-chaired a hunger initiative through Feed the Hungry, providing 25 million servings of food to communities across the United States.
Vincent holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Baltimore. Vincent and his family split their time between Washington, D.C. and New York City.
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