The COVID pandemic has hit many industries hard, but theater artists have had more trouble than most getting back on their feet, and many are facing dwindling options with no federal safety net to fall back on.
“Hearing that ‘PUA [Pandemic Unemployment Assistance] is keeping people from going back to work’ or that we should simply ‘find something new’ honestly feels like a slap in the face,” said actor Jess Griffin, who has worked in regional theater full time for the last decade.
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