Re: RAT union panel discussion

[nick <nick@ratconference.com>]

At 12:29 PM 6/12/01 -0400, Cat Hebert wrote:
>However, there are other union / small theater issues:
>The argument that you hear in cities other than NYC and LA is that union 
>rules prohibit actors from working at non-union theaters, and no middle 
>ground has been established -- as it has in LA and NYC. That lack of 
>compromise seems to me to be a major issue affecting RAT-type theaters.

Chicago keeps its rich theatre community full of original work in large 
part because its actors demanded the same consideration from the union that 
their East Coast and West Coast peers received.   Actors Equity members in 
New York, LA, Chicago all have negotiated individual contracts for their 
cities which allows actors to co-produce the theatre in which they believe 
(i.e.; work for essentially no money under showcase contracts).  Theater 
that otherwise would not have been produced.

Potentially great theatre towns are reduced to a second class status 
because of this "inequitable" treatment of actors from the "other" cities 
by Actors Equity.  I am confused as to why this blatant injustice cannot 
seem to be addressed much less be corrected.






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