Following the news that the regional theaters Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Theatre Group will resume performances in the coming months, Actors' Equity has shared a public list of resources, including COVID-19 testing guidelines as well as a pre-production sheet, geared toward producers readying to resume live theater.
Equity offered their five recommended brands/tests to be given to actors, stage managers and all other employees that will be interacting with the them: Cepheide/Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2, Genmark/ePlex SARS-CoV-2 test, BioFire/BioFire COVID-19 Test, BioFire/Respiratory Panel 2.1 and Roche/Cobas SARS-CoV2. Tests must be administered at least once a week at no costs to actors and stage managers.
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