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Don Shirley: "...a 99-seat company that decided to go backwards into non-Equity status...could easily vanish from the media map."
Downer Don ain’t exactly grieving over Equity’s apparent elimination of the 99 Seat Plan and he cares not who knows it. Check this from his latest over at LA Observed:In Los Angeles County, where there are so many more Equity actors than in OC, a 99-seat company that decided to go backwards into non-Equity status — in order to avoid paying the minimum wage — could e...
Is the Pro99 Movement Splintering?
Kinda seems that way, especially after reading this somewhat schizophrenic article from SLM over at the Weekly:After the L.A. membership roundly rejected the union’s new scheme in an advisory April vote, the union’s National Council voted to proceed with the new plan anyway. For that reason, among many others related to the debacle, lawsuits are being quietly prepared again...
An Open Letter to Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle from #Pro99 AEA Members
Picked this up off the Facebook wires, with the blessing of one of the creators. If you’d like to add your name to the list by all means go here and sign on.An Open Letter to Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle from #Pro99 AEA MembersDear President Shindle,We,...
This Will Be Significant One Day...
I know others have discussed this already and I know it was even referenced in AEA President Kate Shindle’s recent statement as something to “celebrate” (then again she said the same thing about the recent Hollywood Theatre Row dedication), but seeing it in print in my quarterly Equity News paper seemed to make its significance even more powerful....
#AskIfIGiveAShit
I’m sure many of my fellow Los Angeles based Actors’ Equity members received the insipid email from Mary McColl this week asking us to do this:This Thursday, September 3rd, we are launching a five-day-only social media campaign for “Ask If It’s Equity” over Labor Day weekend. The campaign will begin tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST and will run through Labor Day.Because we want to encourage audiences to see a show over Labor Day weekend, and to “Ask If I...
Labor Day: A Fable of Equity
The feasts were laid on lawns, the work of days.The people gathered by the temples, sweetAnticipation in their hungry mouths.And then of course they came, the harpies cruel,The winged bitches swooping airborne downUpon the happy scene. The joyous wept.The harpies went...
TORNADO WEATHER
I’m annoyed that Colin Mitchell asked me to write for Bitter Lemons. Or, to be clearer, I’m annoyed that I’ve written so much on Facebook, and Twitter, and public forums, that Colin saw enough of it to think this was a good idea. I’m annoyed that my labor union brought that about.Now, I’m going to annoy you by telling you things about myself that you won’t give a sh*t about. I’m 51 years old. I’ve been acting since I was 15. I turned down a casting offer from a theater in Virginia so I could stay in coll...
The Saturday Saying
“Given Equity’s outstanding track record with surveys, I think I’ll be skipping the one they sent me this morning.”William Lewis Salyers - in response to AEA’s LGBT Equality survey that they recently sent to their members....
If Los Angeles' Actors' Equity Members Want to Make a Real Statement They Should Picket the October 19th Membership Meeting
I’m sure my fellow Los Angeles’ AEA members have all received their invitations to RSVP to the Monday, October 19th, 11:00AM Membership meeting and are now wondering how to respond. Here’s one option: don’t show up. And if you do, it should be in protest and should in no way be an act of participation in their tainted process. Hell, I even have a slogan you guys can use free of charge:No Participation without Proper Representation.Now I’m pretty confident this isn’t going to happen...
Tussle Between Actors' Equity Association and Confidential Musical Theatre Project Highlights the Grey Areas in Los Angeles Theater
I’m always hesitant to wade fully into stories like this one. Mostly, because nobody’s paying me to do so and it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy to do it properly, time and energy I could be spending on making money, or art, but I’m also reluctant because many of the people I’m writing about, I actually know, they are colleagues, acquaintances, sometimes even friends. Additionally, I am on the record as having a very pub...