AMERICAN THEATRE: ACTORS’ EQUITY ANNOUNCES 4 GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR REOPENING THEATRES

NEW YORK CITY: Actors’ Equity Association today hosted a press conference to announce four core principles they say will be needed to support a safe and healthy return to producing live theatre, but offered no timeline for progress on this issue. President Kate Shindle and executive director Mary McColl were joined by former OSHA head and current Equity public health consultant Dr. David Michaels.

“When we reopen the industry,” McColl told reporters assembled over Zoom, “we have one opportunity to get it right. We think that the principles that we are announcing today are the first step in building out protocols to help everyone that works in the theatre onstage, backstage, and even in the front of house.”

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