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Actors' Equity Clarifies Upcoming Meetings with Plaintiffs will be "Facilitated Discussions" and not "Negotiations"

Here we go again.Please to enjoy the latest “clarification” from the Equity “leadership” that just arrived in my email box:Dear Member,As you know, Equity has agreed to a set of facilitated meetings with the Plaintiffs in the Asner v Actors’ Equity lawsuit.  We are writing today to let you know that President Kate Shindle and Western Regional Vice President Doug Carfrae will lead a contingent of Equity leadership in those discussions....

Actors' Equity Member Dakin Matthews to Union President Kate Shindle: "Voice members’ concerns to staff first; then you have earned the right to voice staff’s concerns to members."

Dakin Matthews likes to let it rip, but he backs in up with experience, knowledge and thought. He’s done it before on the Lemon. He gave us a shout and asked if we’d like to re-publish this particular morsel. We like.Madame Shindle, this forum is also open to you if you dare to venture here anymore. It was certainly expedient when you were running for office. We’re happy to have you back if you’d like to reply.Dakin of course...

Actor's Equity President Kate Shindle Interview on Broadway Bullet: "The 99 Seat Plan Has Become a Business Model Where No One Can Get Paid."

Many thanks to Brian Helm for bringing this new interview with AEA President Kate Shindle to my attention. The podcast is from the site Broadway Bullet and the interviewer is Michael Gilboe. The interview touches on LA’s 99 Seat Plan and the ensuing talks going on between Equity and the Plaintiffs right around the 14 minute mark and last until about 21 minute mark. Here were a couple of Kate quotes that stood out for me from the interview:</...

The Saturday Saying: Kate Shindle, AEA President

“Finally, and most important: it is, as always, very frustrating not to be able to discuss a lot of the LA issues, but this is the big kids’ table and sometimes we have to go along with things we don’t like. But to those of you who are primarily focused on that issue, I offer this: I am on your side. NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOU ARE ON. Our number one goal at the end of all of this, IMO, must be a functioning, vibrant, unified LA. I can’t say one damn word about what’s happening, but there is a high...

Longtime Actors' Equity Member John Rubinstein to the AEA Councillors: "You can still be a Council of colleagues, helping and supporting your constituents."

Cribbed from the Pro99 Facebook Page. John Rubinstein an Equity member since 1965, as usual, cuts through the bullshit and lays it out plainly and clearly. Which is why the AEA National Councillors will more than likely summarily dismiss it or spin it into oblivion.We won’t be doing that here at the Lemon....

Equity Member Vanessa Stewart does the Math on the 99 Seat Plan: "We create contracts."

The lovely and talented, Vanessa Stewart of Louis & Keely & Stoneface fame, spent the last year compiling real stats and facts on LA’s 99 Seat Plan, the plan that Actors’ Equity Association is trying to eliminate. This is what she came up with.Currently, there is a lawsuit filed and waiting to be served upon AEA, by a prominent group of Equity members who have for...

Hoyt Hilsman on AEA and the Battle for LA Theater: "Actors Equity is mired in the past."

As always, Hoyt is right on the pulse and doesn’t hold back in calling it like he sees it:What all of this reveals – despite a years-long struggle to alter their consciousness – is that the leadership of Actors Equity is mired in the past. American theater, led by the vitality and creativity of artists like those in Los Angeles, has become a burgeoning and bustling coun...

"Hamilton" Casting Call: "Eminem Meets Sweeney Todd"

Hat tip, Ezra Buzzington....

Your Pro99-Approved Actors' Equity Association Candidates (See Within)

Here they are, folks. Ratified and approved by the administrators of the Pro99 Cabal. Apparently these are the AEA candidates who seem most open to what’s happening over here on the Left Coast and most sympathetic of the cause. Do what you will with the info.This from one of the admins, Mike Lorre:We, the admin, of Pro99 have been monitoring the posts over the past month or so since the AEA c...

Actor's Equity Association (AEA)

About Actor’s Equity AssociationEquity has a contract to cover professional theatre large and small, wherever it might be happening in...