Press Releases

Union withdraws election petition from NLRB as it pursues this course of action.

The leaked SCOTUS decision would prove catastrophic for workers

Momentum Builds Behind the Bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act with Nearly 70 House Cosponsors

Non-union workers are earning a third of their counterparts on the Equity Waitress production

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has issued a statement in response to New York reaching a budget agreement.

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has released the following statement following the U.S. Senate voting to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. 

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has announced that Executive Director Al Vincent, Jr. has been elected as a voting member to the Board of Directors for the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

The union urges the city to strengthen worker protections in public arts funding

This Bill is Crucial to Protecting Workers from Racial Discrimination

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has released the union’s third diversity and inclusion hiring bias report, tracking the demographics of how its members are hired for acting and stage management work, and how much they were paid in the year 2020.