BWW SPECIAL FEATURE: How I Got My Equity Card - By Jill Paice

By: Dec. 18, 2009
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BroadwayWorld.com is proud to present its weekly feature, presented in association with and to celebrate the importance of the Actors' Equity Association. "AEA" or "Equity", founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members.

Check back weekly for new entries from stars of stage and screen on how they got their Equity cards!

"I received my Equity card in 2000, quite by accident. At the time I was a junior working towards a degree in Musical Theatre at Baldwin Wallace College. I was hired as a non-Equity performer by Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland, Ohio for their production of GYPSY, which starred Donna McKechnie.

When I showed up for the first day of rehearsal, the company had lost one of their Equity cast members. There was suddenly an extra Equity contract. The director Victoria Bussert, who also happened to be my teacher at Baldwin Wallace College, pulled me into the hallway and said, "I want you to join Equity. You're ready." I think I told her I had to go ask my mom! My paperwork was filed later that day and I remember feeling grown up, because I was now a member of Actors' Equity." 

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