Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Actors' Equity Association Report Reveals 'Progress Towards Diversity and Equity' in 2021
www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association has published Progress During an Atypical Year: Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps in Theatre in 2021. The latest installment in Equity's series of Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps reports, this document examines employment opportunity and average salaries for members of the union in 2021. This report found that the industry may be making progress towards diversity and equity in union jobs for stage managers and actors.We Talked to Intimacy Coordinators About Penn Badgley’s Viral Anti-Sex Scene Comments
jezebel.com: Penn Badgley shared last week that he’d requested that the number of intimacy scenes in You Season 4 “go from 100 to zero,” explaining that “fidelity in every relationship, and especially my marriage, is really important to me.” While sex scenes for his character, serial killer Joe Goldberg, remain in the season, there are certainly fewer; the scenes lack close-up shots, and clothes mostly stay on.I’ve worked front of house in 40 theatres – and audiences behaved terribly in all of them
Bethany North | The Guardian: I have been working front-of-house jobs in theatres more or less since I graduated from university 12 years ago. During that time, whether in regional theatres or on tour, I must have worked in at least 40 theatres across the UK – old, new, and with audiences large and small. However, one thing has been consistent in all of them: terrible audience behaviour.Voice Actors Push Back Against Their Voices Being Used by AI
gizmodo.com: Towards the end of 2022, there was a big boom in AI-generated art on social media and artist-friendly sites such as ArtStation. Though human artists have been quite vocal about how art generators are copying art that already exists from real creators, AI art is gradually becoming a part of that community and other parts of various entertainment industries such as books or music. And now a similar problem is arising in the voice acting space.Barter Theatre’s Plan to Create a Black Appalachian Canon
AMERICAN THEATRE: Barter Theatre in Virginia isn’t unique in their current position: It is a predominantly white institution that is currently attempting to better serve audiences and artists of color. But the innovative structure of Barter’s new Black Stories Black Voices program—which will have its second public showing with a “Shine: Illuminate Black Stories” event on theatre’s mainstage on Feb. 26—could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that embraces and empowers Black communities at mainstream theatres.
