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23/07/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 24/07/2024 02:20

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Equity and Off Broadway League Ratify New 4 Year Contract

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Members of Actors' Equity Association (Equity)and the Off-Broadway League ratified a new four-year contract. The new agreement goes into effect July 28 and goes through 2028. The contract provides salary increases, changes to overtime calculation, increased compensation and requirements for understudies and stage managers, continued and expanded opportunities for digital exhibition of league productions, expanded time off and sick leave provisions, expanded diversity, equity and inclusion protections, and safe and sanitary provisions.

"These last few years have been an incredibly challenging time for our entire industry, and our members worked diligently to come up with solutions and new flexible models that would support a thriving Off-Broadway scene, and create more work opportunities. We found a true partnership with our Equity co-chairs, and are pleased we found common ground and reached a new four-year deal together," said the league's Negotiating Team Co-Chairs Pamela Adams, Dean Carpenter, Joey Monda and Evan O'Brient.