The "custom" of paying everyone associated with a production a salary
(stage manager, lighting person, costumes, etc.) and ignoring the
actors has grown throughout the country. As if actors do it for their
art and all the others need to eat. There is a way to stop it, but it
requires a type of rebellion on the part of actors. Tell 'em NO. You
may lose a few jobs, but in the end if enough people do it, there will
finally be a little "equity" in the hiring system. I've managed
theaters, been an AD, a theater business manager and an actor for over
47 years. Never worked in a theater or a film that couldn't afford to
pay something. It's bull.
Thanks for the discussion forum, Bill.
Doug Mitchell
On Sep 14, 7:19 am, Barbara Glover <
babylonbad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you have no budget to pay actors and you want to use professionals, members of an actors union, SAG, EQUITY or AFTRA, the producers need to at least have an Actors Benefit Performance where they can invite all their peeps and make something. It's just disrespectful not to offer and pay something for one's time and experience. That's my 2 cents. My feeling is if you are going to make money off me and my talent you need to pay me unless I have made the decision to do a fund raiser for something I believe in like the Vagina Monologues or helping out new writers at OPP, and they pay a stipend.
> Barbara
>
> --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Sara <
say_...@yahoo.com> wrote: