Fringe and the 99 Seat Theatre Plan

Greetings, Fringers!

I have little doubt that you are following the stories surrounding the changes to the 99 Seat Theatre Plan proposed by Actors’ Equity. We visited AEA’s headquarters in North Hollywood to ensure we passed on accurate information to you.

The 2015 festival is business-as-usual in terms of AEA contracts. If you want to include a union actor in your project, you need to prepare a 99 Seat Theatre Plan application (available at Actorsequity.org) just as you always have. We have verification from Equity that they will be accepting these applications through most of June – even if the proposed changes (or some variant thereof) go into effect.

Once HFF15 is in the history books, we will sit down with AEA to discuss how any changes will impact 2016 Fringe participants and how we might operate within this new environment.

I hope this clears up some of those questions you have – at least for now. As we move through next year you can be sure we will be keeping you all in the loop.

Still have questions?

You can contact AEA directly by emailing: [email protected] or contact the Fringe at [email protected]

Thanks and Fringe On!

Ben Hill, Festival Director 

The Hollywood Fringe Festival