With its entire membership of 51,000 professional actors and stage managers out of work, Actors’ Equity Association on Tuesday announced the health and safety guidelines it expects theaters to follow before it will authorize its members to return to the stage.
The list of “core principles” devised by David Michaels, a former federal public health official retained by Actors’ Equity, is a statement of four broad concerns the union wants theater producers and companies to address. It covers such issues as widespread testing and contact tracing; the quick isolating of individuals symptomatic or ill with the coronavirus; modifying theaters and productions to minimize the spread of the pathogen; and a process in which the union is included in any decision-making about how and when to reopen.
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