How to Make Actors' Equity Association Function FOR You

How to Make Actors' Equity Association Function FOR You

From Assembly Guide by Alicia Newcom

February 4, 2026 · 36 min · Season 1 · Episode 13

About this episode

This episode provides two easy action steps for professional actors and stage managers to ensure the Actors' Equity Association functions effectively for them.

Are you a professional actor or stage manager? Do you want Actors’ Equity Association to function FOR you, but you don’t have a lot of time or energy to dedicate to it at this moment? This episode details 2 super easy action steps you can take as a member working ANY contract to help ensure AEA more effectively functions for you and the changes you want to see. Achieving the changes we want to see requires us owning our agency and ensuring we’re a part of making that change by ensuring the union functions FOR us (and not unintentionally making those changes more difficult to achieve by undermining or weakening the union). Tune in, follow these steps, and I guarantee we will see our union begin to start functioning more effectively for the changes we want to see in our contracts, our workspaces, and day-to-day lives as professional actors and stage managers. All opinions are my own, and I do not in any way represent or speak on behalf of Actors’ Equity Association. Check out @assemblyguide on Instagram and follow or subscribe for upcoming episodes. Have a topic in mind about creating more humane theatrical spaces you’d like to discuss or to hear me talk about? Reach out to me…

Topics covered

  • Actors' Equity Association
  • professional acting
  • stage management
  • union agency
  • theatrical spaces

Keywords

  • agency
  • change
  • contracts
  • workspaces
  • professional actors

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