Hey indie theatermakers of NYC! If you are into reforming the Showcase Code, remember that you are PART OF THE PROBLEM if what you mostly want is to not pay artists! I know you feel so cool and downtown and all...but you are PART OF THE PROBLEM. From Isaac Butlers great piece: It is not in Equitys interest to make it easier to work with their members for free, and I sincerely hope they wont and that theyll continue to resist calls for reforms that further gut the code. This would put downward pressure on wages everywhere and further reinforce the idea that you dont have to pay the people who make your art. If were going to say that Indie Theater is the innovative theater sector, prodcuers should get innovative about how they produce their work so as to avoid high real estate costs. Or, as one off-off producer I spoke to put it to me, it infuriates me that people produce shows about, say, the disenfranchisement of the underclass while not paying their actors and crowdfunding their productions and giving all their rent to a guy who lives in Florida and owns eleven buildings in Manhattan.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:42:55 +0000
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