Actors’ Equity Makes Open Access Permanent
The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.
The open membership policy, which has sharply increased the percentage of union members of color since 2021, will mean a phase-out of the Equity Membership Candidate program.
The winner will be named at the award presentation and 45th anniversary celebration on March 27 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.
The unique partnership also announced grants for new works at 2 New England theatres.
Succeeding the theatre’s founding artistic director, he will have led the company through nearly 17 years and several cycles of community-collaborative shows.
The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 prize and commemorative trophy.
The administrators will work in a three-pronged model of shared leadership.
South Coast Rep puts Lillian Hellman and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays about Southern inheritance into rotating, and possibly revealing, repertory.
Slated for May, this year’s gathering will feature performances, speeches, training, networking, and more.
7 new playwrights will be in residence with the New York-based Asian American and Pacific Islander theatre company.
Focusing on the digital accessibility of performing arts, the project is being coordinated by researcher and dramaturg Magda Romanska.