File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9904, message 80


From: Bevroche-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:46:45 EDT
Subject: Re: PUPT: Art and Business


In a message dated 99-04-11 21:55:18 EDT, you write:

<< Hey, here's something amazing: Actor's Equity does not consider puppetry to
 fall under his jurisdiction. This means that an union actor can work for a
 puppet company and the puppet company doesn't have to be a signatory to any
 Equity contract. This is good news for producers who can ignore the rules
 that Equity has adopted over time to protect its members from predatory
 practices. It is bad news for puppeteers.
  >>
Please, Robert, do not imply that puppetry should fall into the "protective 
services" of Actor's Equity.  At the LORT house here in Indiana (the Indiana 
Repertory Theater) a youth contract at the theater provides around  $375 a 
week for 9+ performances plus a lunch on saturday.  Also membership in Equity 
severly limits other professional or experimental quazi-professional 
(example: solo performance, where you work for the door) theatrical 
experiences.  Equity Actors are forced to stop doing the very work that 
gained them the skills that earned them their cards in the first place.

Beverly Roche


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