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SUMMER 2019 | VOLUME 104 | ISSUE 3 ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION Equity NEWS A CENTURY OF SOLIDARITY CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VERY FIRST EQUITY STRIKE EquityDIRECTORY EASTERN REGION WESTERN REGION BUSINESS THEATRE Kaitlyn Hoffman [email protected], x322 SPECIAL APPEARANCE, GUEST AND DINNER THEATRE ARTIST Philip Ring [email protected], x106 CABARET Kaitlyn Hoffman [email protected], x322 WITHIN LA - 99 SEAT Albert Geana-Bastare [email protected], x118 CASINO Doria Montfort [email protected], x334 TYA, STOCK, LOA TO COST & LOA TO WCLO Christa Jackson [email protected], x129 DINNER THEATRE Gary Dimon [email protected], x414 SPT, HAT Gwen Meno [email protected], x110 DINNER THEATRE ARTIST Austin Ruffer [email protected], x307 LORT Ethan Schwartz [email protected], x150 DISNEY WORLD Donna-Lynne Dalton [email protected], x604 Buckly Stephens [email protected], x602 LOA TO LORT Lyn Moon [email protected], x119 GUEST ARTIST Austin Ruffer [email protected], x307 CONTRACTS WITHIN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Ethan Schwartz [email protected], x150 LABS/WORKSHOPS Corey Jenkins [email protected], x325 CONTRACTS WITHIN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Albert Geana-Bastare [email protected], x118 LOA-NYC Raymond Morales [email protected], x314 CONTRACTS WITHIN TEXAS & UTAH Christa Jackson [email protected], x129 LOA-PP Timmary Hammett [email protected], x376 Gary Dimon [email protected], x414 CONTRACTS WITHIN ALASKA, ARIZONA, COLORADO, HAWAII, IDAHO, MONTANA, NEW LORT MEXICO & WYOMING Gwen Meno [email protected], x110 Jeffrey Bateman [email protected], x338 CONTRACTS WITHIN WASHINGTON, OREGON & NEVADA Doria Montfort [email protected], x334 Lyn Moon [email protected], x119 MIDSIZE Timmary Hammett [email protected], x376 MINI Raymond Morales [email protected], x314 NEAT Timmary Hammett [email protected], x376 OAT Doug Truelsen [email protected], x606 OFF-BROADWAY Kaitlyn Hoffman [email protected], x322 Raymond Morales [email protected], x314 PRODUCTION/DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT Corey Jenkins [email protected], x325 Walt Kiskaddon [email protected], x336 TOURS (SETA/PRODUCTION) Tripp Chamberlain [email protected], x320 SHEAR MADNESS (BOSTON, WASHINGTON, D.C.) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Doria Montfort [email protected], x334 SHOWCASE/NYMF Logan Cypher [email protected], x339 THE ACTORS FUND WESTERN REGION SPECIAL APPEARANCE Austin Ruffer [email protected], x307 (NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS) 5636 Tujunga Avenue SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS Corey Jenkins [email protected], x325 (800) 221-7303 North Hollywood, CA 91601 Timmary Hammett [email protected], x376 SPT/LOA NORTHEAST Telephone: (323) 978-8080 SPT/LOA MID-ATLANTIC Jeremy Bohmstein [email protected], x378 BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS Audition Hotline: (877) AEA-1913, Ext. 826 (212) 840-0770 SPT/LOA SOUTHEAST Kathleen Munroe [email protected], x413 Rehearsal/performance-related emergencies Walt Kiskaddon [email protected], x336 (for after-hours only): (818) 414-8525 STAGED READING CONTRACTS ACTORS' EQUITY FOUNDATION STOCK (COST, CORST, PCLO) Jeffrey Bateman [email protected], x338 (212) 869-1242 General Office Hours SUNDANCE SPECIAL AGREEMENT Jeremy Bohmstein [email protected], x378 9 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday Membership Office Hours TRANSITION Raymond Morales [email protected], x314 ACTORS' FEDERAL CREDIT UNION (212) 869-1242 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday-Friday Doria Montfort [email protected], x334 TYA URTA Doria Montfort [email protected], x334 EQUITY-LEAGUE BENEFIT FUNDS (800) 344-5220 EASTERN REGION CENTRAL REGION 165 West 46th St. HARASSMENT HOTLINE New York, NY 10036 (833) 550-0030 CAT AND ILLINOIS (outside the Chicago Metropolitan Area) Cynthia Hanks [email protected], x239 Membership, 14th Floor M. Nathan Wilkinson [email protected], x246 Reception, 15th Floor David Kolen [email protected], x236 Audition Center, 16th Floor SECOND CITY Cynthia Hanks [email protected], x239 CENTRAL REGION Telephone: (212) 869-8530 MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL Cynthia Hanks [email protected], x239 Actors' Equity Building Audition Hotline: (877) AEA-1913, Ext. 831 557 West Randolph Street SPECIAL AGREEMENTS WITHIN CHICAGO M. Nathan Wilkinson [email protected], x246 Rehearsal/performance-related emergencies Chicago, IL 60661 (for after-hours only): (866) 270-4232 LOA-COST WITHIN CHICAGO M. Nathan Wilkinson [email protected], x246 LORT WITHIN CHICAGO – GOODMAN & COURT THEATRES Telephone: (312) 641-0393 General Office Hours M. Nathan Wilkinson [email protected], x246 Audition Hotline: (877) AEA-1913, Ext. 815 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, Monday-Friday Rehearsal/performance-related emergencies Membership Hours LORT WITHIN CHICAGO – NORTHLIGHT THEATRE (for after-hours only): (312) 307-2781 David Kolen [email protected], x236 10 am to 4:30 pm, Monday-Friday CONTRACTS WITHIN KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA, NEBRASKA, MINNESOTA, General Office Hours ORLANDO OKLAHOMA & LOUISIANA David Kolen [email protected], x236 9 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday Membership Office Hours 10319 Orangewood Blvd. CONTRACTS WITHIN WISCONSIN, OHIO & KENTUCKY 9 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday Orlando, Florida 32821 M. Nathan Wilkinson [email protected], x246 Telephone: (407) 345-8600 CONTRACTS WITHIN MISSOURI (EXCEPT KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN AREA), Fax: (407) 345-1522 Audition Hotline: (877) 232-1913, ext. 821 MICHIGAN, INDIANA, ARKANSAS, IOWA, NORTH DAKOTA & SOUTH DAKOTA Cynthia Hanks [email protected], x239 EquityNEWS Actors' Equity Advisory Committee Director of Communications Christine Toy Johnson (Chair) Brandon Lorenz Al Bundonis Diane Dorsey Editor Nicole Flender Doug Strassler Ruth E. Kramer Kevin McMahon Contributor Barbara N. Roberts Joyce Vinzani Melissa Robinette Buzz Roddy Got a question or Kate Shindle comment? Need to report a change of Joann Yeoman address? Email us at [email protected] EQUITY NEWS (ISSN: 00924520) is published quarterly by Actors’ Equity Association, 165 West 46th St., New York, NY 10036. Telephone: (212) 869-8530. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y. and additional mailing offices. Copyright 2019, Actors’ Equity Association. Postmaster: Send address changes to Equity News, 165 West 46th St., New York, NY 10036. EquityNEWS CONTENTS SUMMER 2019 | VOLUME 104 | ISSUE 3 8 9 FOUNDATION AWARDS SETA NEGOTIATION The Equity Foundation The new agreement honored breakout includes updated and veteran performers. regulations on trunk size. 10 16 STRIKE ANNIVERSARY THEATRE SPOTLIGHT Equity recalls its Learn more about first strike on Wilma Theater's its centenary. HotHouse company. 17 21 ACROSS THE NATION HIGMEC 1,200 members Read about how call Philadelphia home. two members got their Equity cards. 22 27 EISENBERG AWARD MALCOLM D. EWEN Two University of Michigan Equity remembers graduates received the the Councillor Alan Eisenberg scholarship. we lost earlier this year. FRONT of HOUSE FROM THE PRESIDENT REFLECTIONS ON SOLIDARITY Happy summer! Whether aviation and threatened to stop planes from flying. you're working, relaxing or That effort to end the shutdown and restore government hustling to find your next contract, services was aided by front page stories in The New York I hope it's treating you well. Times and elsewhere, where unions for NASA rocket scientists Let’s face it: no matter and federal immigration judges gave voice to those highly where you are, it’s very difficult these days to escape from the educated workers who had been locked out of their offices, debate about our country’s future. These conversations can be labs and courtrooms. Workers who would have been voiceless inspiring. They can also be divisive. So, I thought I’d use this without union representation. issue’s column to talk about the polar opposite of divisiveness: In our own corner of the labor market, Equity has fought solidarity. A majority of Americans are clearly upset about for, and won – at the ballot box and through lobbying efforts stagnant wages and increased income inequality. According to – millions of dollars of additional local public arts funding a recent Gallup poll, unions have their highest approval rating in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and elsewhere. We’ve in 15 years – with the strongest approval coming from young defended the National Endowment for the Arts in Congress. Americans. We’ve aggressively pushed to update the parts of the tax code We are seeing a resurgence in union organizing activity, that involve professional artists. Many of us have also gone to especially by creative professionals. For example, in the past D.C. to tell lawmakers that it’s wrong to gut healthy pension couple of years more than 30 newsrooms (including digital funds (like ours) to bail out the pensions of other organizations. platforms like Vice and Gawker and mainstream newspapers And of course, we recently called our first strike in fifty years like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune) have and won a significant pay raise plus profit participation for formed unions. There’s a major union drive for those who make shows that we help develop on Broadway. video games. Unions are also pushing back against decks that I believe that the workers of America have now awakened are stacked against the