Equity in the News

Actors' Equity Association released the following statement after reports that Disneyland has postponed opening in California. According to CNBC, Florida experienced "another record spike in coronavirus cases," yesterday with cases up 5 percent in one day.

Amid accusations of union busting, the New Theatre & Restaurant in Overland Park may be facing a new allegation—blacklisting.

The 2020 election also sees Victoria Clark and Michele L. Pawk join the national council.

Actors Equity Association's National Council has just met and released the following decision in regards to Black Lives Matter Movement:

Actors' Equity Association declared that Juneteenth would be a staff holiday.

Actors’ Equity—the nation’s union for stage actors and managers—has revealed the protocol for auditions in the age of COVID-19 social distancing. For an industry accustomed to in-person auditions, live theater actors are preparing to embrace homemade video submissions for the few gigs that are hiring.

Actors' Equity has invited members to attend an open discussion regarding racial injustice and anti-Black practices in the theatre industry. This conversation will be hosted by Equal Employment Opportunity Committee Vice Chairs E. Faye Butler, Barbara Roberts and Allyson Tucker. President Kate Shindle and Executive Director Mary McColl look forward to sharing the union's current activity in support of racial justice in the society at large and in the theatre community. Further, they look forward to hearing candid questions and concerns as the organization strives toward a new and better normal when Equity members are back at work.

Actors' Equity Association issued a statement following media reports that Texas has a record high number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients weeks following its early reopening.

Actors’ Equity said today that while the Department of Labor’s latest jobs report is encouraging, it should not delay passage of legislation pending in Congress that would help record levels of unemployed arts and entertainment workers.