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Editors note: Earlier this week, IATSE president Matthew Loeb informed President Joe Biden that the union’s members “stand ready to help build vaccination sites across the country, or to convert existing entertainment venues and convention centers into vaccination sites in order to get shots into the arms of Americans…

UPDATED with SAG-AFTRA response at bottom: The war of words in the increasingly bitter jurisdictional dispute between SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity continued today with Equity president Kate Shindle blasting SAG-AFTRA for interfering in her union's internal affairs by launching a "sham investigation" into one of its…

As the long-simmering jurisdictional dispute between Actors' Equity and SAG-AFTRA continues to unfold in public, Equity executive director Mary McColl today disputed SAG-AFTRA's claim that Equity had asked for a "waiver" to represent actors who perform in taped stage presentations during the pandemic – a jurisdiction…

UPDATED with statement from fund’s trustees: Actors' Equity is calling on union trustees of the Equity-League Health Fund to withdraw their support from a plan that will make it more difficult for theatrical actors and stage managers across the country to qualify for health benefits when legitimate theaters…

Kate Shindle has been re-elected president of Actors' Equity, the union representing more than 51,000 theatrical actors and stage managers. She was first elected to the post in 2015, having previously served as the union's eastern regional vice president. She made her Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde, with other…