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  • Actors’ Equity Association Decries Passage of House Tax Budget without Tax Fairness for Performing Artists

    Actors’ Equity Association Decries Passage of House Tax Budget without Tax Fairness for Performing Artists

    Union Vows to Continue the Work to Correct a Tax Law That Inadvertently Penalizes Working Artists

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    • Tax Bill
  • Actors’ Equity Association Endorses Mark Levine for New York City Comptroller

    Actors’ Equity Association Endorses Mark Levine for New York City Comptroller

    Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, announced that Equity’s National Council has endorsed Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine’s campaign for comptroller for the City of the New York, on behalf of its nearly 18,000 members who live in the greater metro area.

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  • Actors’ Equity Association Endorses Brad Hoylman-Sigal for Manhattan Borough President

    Actors’ Equity Association Endorses Brad Hoylman-Sigal for Manhattan Borough President

    Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, announced that Equity’s National Council has endorsed Brad Hoylman-Sigal’s campaign for Manhattan borough president, on behalf of its nearly 18,000 members who live in the greater metro area.

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  • ACTORS’ EQUITY OPPOSES GOV. NEWSOM’S SURPRISE PROPOSAL TO MAKE MASSIVE CUT TO CALIFORNIA ARTS FUNDING, VOWS TO LAUNCH COALITION TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR SMALL NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

    ACTORS’ EQUITY OPPOSES GOV. NEWSOM’S SURPRISE PROPOSAL TO MAKE MASSIVE CUT TO CALIFORNIA ARTS FUNDING, VOWS TO LAUNCH COALITION TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR SMALL NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

    Signed into law in late 2022, SB 1116 established the Equitable Payroll Fund (EPF), a grant program designed to support live performances – and workers directly – by providing reimbursements of payroll expenses. This program supports jobs for both production and non-production employees at small nonprofit performing arts organizations (SNPAOs) with adjusted gross revenue under $2 million. 

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  • Actors’ Equity Association Announces Nominees for 2025 ACCA Awards

    Actors’ Equity Association Announces Nominees for 2025 ACCA Awards

    Actors’ Equity Association’s Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) has announced the nominees for this season’s ACCA Award, honoring the chorus performers in a Broadway show.

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    • Awards
  • The Second City Workers Reach a Deal, Avoid Strike

    The Second City Workers Reach a Deal, Avoid Strike

    Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional performers and stage managers working in live theatre across the country, has announced that workers at The Second City have reached a tentative agreement with employers, avoiding the need for a strike in Chicago as authorized last week.

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  • Actors’ Equity: We Will Again Fight Efforts from the Trump Administration to Defund the National Endowment for the Arts

    Actors’ Equity: We Will Again Fight Efforts from the Trump Administration to Defund the National Endowment for the Arts

    Actors' Equity Association has released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump's new budget proposal which moves to make major cuts to federal agencies.

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    • Funding
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  • Actors’ Equity Association Issues Strike Threat at The Second City in Chicago

    Actors’ Equity Association Issues Strike Threat at The Second City in Chicago

    The National Council of Actors’ Equity Association, the union representing more than 51,000 professional performers and stage managers working in live theatre across the country, has voted unanimously to authorize a strike for the workers of The Second City in Chicago at the discretion of their lead negotiator.

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  • Equity Publishes Hiring Bias and Wage Gap Report on Theatre in 2022 and 2023

    Equity Publishes Hiring Bias and Wage Gap Report on Theatre in 2022 and 2023

    Study finds gradual, positive steps towards a fairer industry in the years since the onset of COVID

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  • Leslie Ishii to Receive 2025 Paul Robeson Award

    Leslie Ishii to Receive 2025 Paul Robeson Award

    Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, and the Actors’ Equity Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization supporting the professional theatre community, announced jointly that they will bestow the Paul Robeson Award for 2025 on Leslie Ishii.

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