#SIDFORAEA
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    • Eliminate Barriers To Convention Participation
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    • Complete and Publish Study of BIPOC/White Pay Disparity
    • Anti-Racism Training For All Members
    • Prohibit Concession of Stage Manager Jobs
    • Prioritize Caregiver Support in Negotiations
    • Adopt Internal Policies To Allow Caregiver Participation
    • Require Member Ratification of Multi-Employer Agreements
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    • Amend Threshold For Member-Initiated Constitutional Amendments
    • Reform Executive Committee Structure

DEFINING A STAGE MANAGERS DUTIES


Being a stage manager—whether taping a floor, running a rehearsal room, calling a show, working the deck—is a position for highly-skilled, highly-trained workers. Most actors have little sense of the scope of the work that our SM siblings do, and I'll admit to having been far too ignorant of it before getting involved in Equity governance.

But while we should all have an incredible amount of respect for the work that an SM does, Equity's contracts are largely silent on what the duties of a stage manager actually are. When defining what is—and isn't—an actor's job, there's rarely any controversy. And yet, without a proper contractual definition of what an employer should reasonably expect from the SMs that they hire, we run into some problems.

First, without a definition, our employers often ask our SMs on contract do 

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  • Home
  • Convention Goals
    • Eliminate Barriers To Convention Participation
    • Give The Convention Authority To Amend By-Laws
    • Complete and Publish Study of BIPOC/White Pay Disparity
    • Anti-Racism Training For All Members
    • Prohibit Concession of Stage Manager Jobs
    • Prioritize Caregiver Support in Negotiations
    • Adopt Internal Policies To Allow Caregiver Participation
    • Require Member Ratification of Multi-Employer Agreements
    • Publish Names of Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs
    • Publish Councilor Attendance Records
    • Amend Threshold For Member-Initiated Constitutional Amendments
    • Reform Executive Committee Structure