Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth our time...
Actors' Equity Association Releases Latest Diversity and Inclusion Hiring Bias Report
www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, has released the union's third diversity and inclusion hiring bias report, tracking the demographics of how its members are hired for acting and stage management work, and how much they were paid in the year 2020.
There will be no 2022 Humana Festival of New American Plays
89.3 WFPL News Louisville: “There will not be a Humana Festival of New American Plays in 2022… The Humana Festival of New American Plays, as envisioned prior to the Global Pandemic, has inspired a new approach to develop and produce new work on multiple platforms year-round,” Fleming’s emailed statement read, in part.
SAG-AFTRA First Union Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies
SAG-AFTRA: Today, Fast Company named SAG-AFTRA to its annual World’s Most Innovative Companies list. SAG-AFTRA is the first union to receive this distinction from Fast Company ranking 7th on the list of the 10 Most Innovative Film and Television companies. Fast Company’s 2022 list honors businesses that are making the largest impact in their industries and culture as a whole.
‘I was not ready to be killed’: Belarus Free Theatre prepare to perform in the UK
The Independent: In August 2020, a leading figure of Belarus Free Theatre, the renowned company based in Minsk, found herself in a choke hold. “A policewoman put me on my knees and choked me with [the crook of] her elbow,” says Svetlana Sugako. “I said, ‘Now you will kill me and you will live with that for the rest of your life.’ She was very angry because I had to sign a protocol [with falsified details] of my arrest and I said, ‘I will not sign it because it’s not true.’”
IATSE Celebrates Women's History Month
IATSE: Throughout the month of March, IATSE will be celebrating our past and present leading Sisters and Kin in the IA and labor movement at large who contributed and dedicated their lives to help advance women’s rights and fought for the freedom to organize. From championing better workplace conditions to demanding fair wages, stay tuned each week for the women trailblazers who helped transform the labor movement.
