Actors' Equity Association
Actors' Equity Association is a labor union representing actors and stage managers in the United States, negotiating and enforcing workplace contracts for theatrical performers and advocating on related public policy issues.www.actorsequity.org
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Oct 26, 2026
EA MeierHOST
So if you don't know, Broadway is governed by several different unions depending on what kind of job you have.
EA MeierHOST
And the performers are governed by the union called Actors' Equity.
EA MeierHOST
And in order to be in a Broadway show, you have to be a member of that union.
EA MeierHOST
But you do not have to be a member of that union in order to audition.
ToddPANELIST
Brit.
ToddPANELIST
And she wasn't a member of the Actors' Equity Association, so that was a big hurdle as well.
SeanHOST
Correct.
SeanHOST
They brought in Angela Pleasence, which, as you mentioned, she has a very eerie quality about her.
Richard CrouseGUEST
He's 96 years old at the film.
Richard CrouseGUEST
His name is Lee Whipper, and he was the first black member of Actors' Equity.
Richard CrouseGUEST
And he recites from memory a poem bit of a speech that he did in 1943 in a film called Mission to Moscow, where he played Hailey Selassie.
Richard CrouseGUEST
And it's just magnetic.
Lindsay WeberGUEST
Like, kind of like Ryan Reynolds has, like, essentially an ad agency.
Lindsay WeberGUEST
So, like, he used it to, like, launch that just as he launched Actors' Equity, which is, like, a similar scenario.
Lindsay WeberGUEST
So I do believe that she has a lot of influence in kind of, like, the mechanism of that.
Lindsay WeberGUEST
Because he could have just signed a deal with Duncan, but instead he created this whole thing around it or whatever, you know? True.
Vern HendricksHOST
10th character.
Vern HendricksHOST
Yeah, well, acr- Actors' Equity, uh, is probably going to require a little bit m- well, no.
Lisa HendricksHOST
[laughs]
Vern HendricksHOST
Nobody's getting anything out of this.
Kimberly Doreen BurnsGUEST
Yes.
Brennan StefanikHOST
I do think I got to find a new tax person because I did it with, I don't know if it was just because of this, but I used the free service at the Equity Building through SAG-AFTRA and Equity.
Brennan StefanikHOST
But I used that free service last year and I got slammed.
Brennan StefanikHOST
I got slammed more than I ever had my taxes.
Frank LoBuonoHOST
Her film work includes The Electric State, 31 Candles, The Mayflower, Deliver Us from Evil, Team Marco, Delirious.
Frank LoBuonoHOST
She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Drama League Directing Fellow, SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, and some of her awards include the Fox Fellowship, the Anna Sosenko Grant, BroadwayWorld.com, CT Best Actress Award, CT Critics Circle Award, And her education includes a master in fine arts from the Tisch NYU School, the Moscow Art Theater, and the Philip Goliath and Complicite.
Frank LoBuonoHOST
I think I did all right with that French.
Frank LoBuonoHOST
Well, let's get back to our Italian-American Antoinette.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
Uh, which was, you know, really what started, uh, you know, what became, um, IATSE and the actors.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
Equity was among the most successful, um, uh, unions and had a, a strike.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
And IATSE went out and supported them in 1919, and it was kind of the Shuberts who actually led the way to saying, you know, "We had so many houses, we even had more houses than the syndicate, we need to stay open." And they negotiated the final recognition of Equity, which I do talk about.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
And it wasn't out of the goodness of their heart.
Robert BannonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
And the unions, uh, p- play a critical role in that.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
And of course it's a important part of the cost structure today.
Spencer Weber WallerGUEST
You know, uh, more detail than I do even about the tiered structure, depending on exactly what kind of Equity contract the house, the show, and the actor end up, uh, having.
Bill NigutHOST
I did understand I had to get a union contract.
Bill NigutHOST
Yeah, we need to point out to our listeners who might not know this, but at Actors' Equity, to get your equity card was like the Holy Grail of theater.
Bill NigutHOST
I mean, to not have your equity card cut you out of most of the work that would have been meaningful in New York.
Bill NigutHOST
So that's interesting.
Rick SmithHOST
The program included a list of organizations that supported the march.
Rick SmithHOST
Not many labor unions endorsed, with a few notable exceptions such as the Actors' Equity Association, three AFSCME locals, and one American Federation of Teachers local.
Rick SmithHOST
More demonstrations in Washington, DC followed.
Rick SmithHOST
A march held in 1993 drew crowds estimated at one million, a powerful gathering for the movement to end LGBT discrimination.
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