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A 1988 Letter to the LA Times Reveals Equity's Agenda Then and Now
I know I’ve said that there really isn’t much to add to the 99 Seat Debate at the moment, and really there isn’t, votes are being counted in the elections, I’m guessing legal strategies are being discussed, Equity is continuing to try and further divide the LA Theater Community by telling some membership companies that they aren’t actually membership companies, however, ...
Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles (TPL-LA) Offers Advice on Equity's Latest Divide and Conquer Strategy
Dear Colleague,Earlier this year per Actors Equity Association, membership companies were asked to provide Equity with a list of their members....
LA Based Equity Member John Lee Writes a Letter to Equity: "It does not appear that your union meets the requirements of the Representative Union rule."
LA Based Equity Member, John Lee, writes a funny letter to Equity in response to their latest divide and conquer strategy with membership companies. It’d be a lot funnier if it weren’t spot on. Take it away John!...
Actors' Equity Continues its Longstanding Tradition of Disrespecting its Los Angeles Based Membership
I’m trying to disengage, really, I am, but then I get the latest Equity bird cage liner – er – Newspaper and see that on the second page there is a headline that reads: “Equity’s Council Decides Upon New Membership Rules and Agreements for LA Theater”.And in the body of the article THERE IS NOT ONE SINGLE FUCKING WORD ABOUT THE 2 TO 1 VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSALS BY THE LOS ANGELES BASED MEMBERSHIP.Not one.See the attached image to this post. It’s from NYC based Equity me...
Equity's Desire to Divide and Conquer Los Angeles' Membership Companies Reaches the Heights of Absurdity
Equity’s desire to divide and conquer LA Theater via their ridiculous new “membership company” provision has truly reached the most absurd of heights. The latest comes with their attempt to disqualify one of LA’s most distinguished 20 year running theater companies, The Evidence Room.Well the leader of that company, Bart DeLorenzo,...
Actors' Equity Election Results Could Post As Early as Tomorrow, May 21st
Stay tuned.We’ll see if the organizers of the Pro99 movement have made their case and if that highly concentrated and now-extremely -nfluential voting bloc has the oomph to knock out the morons who voted all this nonsense into existence.We’ll bring you the results as soon as we get them....
Kate Shindle Elected as new Actors' Equity Association President [Updated with Voting Numbers]
Well the best news is that the clueless incumbent president, Nick Wyman, is gone to be replaced by the smart, savvy and mostly Pro99 candidate, Kate Shindle. Plus, I got her on speed dial. Sorta.The almost best news is that Jeff Marlow and Mary-Pat Green have snuck in as two of the new Western Regional National Councillors. See, Mary-Pat? It was probably better that I didn’t endorse you!The bad news is that Western Regional VP D...
LA Times Picks up on Equity's Mishandling of the Evidence Room
We were the first to pick up on this latest incompetence from the Equity leadership and to highlight Bart’s response to their disregard of his company The Evidence Room, then there was an actual official press release that got some play over at Gia On the Move and now the "b...
Hoyt at HuffPo: "Far from killing off LA's intimate theater scene, Equity may have spawned a national movement to follow LA's lead."
Hoyt Hilsman continues his fine coverage of this Equity debacle over at the Huffington Post. In his latest he offers some extremely insightful summations of the now and some hopeful thoughts for the future. Check it:This week, the membership of Actors Equity, the union of American stage actors, voted to oust an incumbent president – virtually unprecedented in the histor...
Did Equity's Divide and Conquer Strategy Work?
Anthony Byrnes over at KCRW says “yes”.I partially agree with him. Here’s his assessment:Divide and conquer worked.Said more clearly, Act One of the actors-union-versus-their-Los-Angeles-members’ battle royale is over and it’s hard to score it as anything but a knock out for the union.You’ll remember that the union, Actors’ Equity, was...