Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Actors Fund prepared for crises
Variety.com: "When 'actors,' as all show folk were called in the 1880s, were so disrespectable that churches wouldn't bury them, the Fund (then known as The Actors' Fund of America) offered a cemetery. When AIDS decimated the business 100 years later, the Fund helped when many orgs were barely aware of the new disease."
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th beauty of this is looking at how the arts wants to sustain itself. It doesn't matter if it is theatre to music or vice versa but it seems to be an overarching theme of taking care of your own.
the actors that are in debt to the fund must be astounding as well as the fact that they are the first relieve and the first response to be there, even if it is only in tiny amounts.
I worked with a SM last summer, who is now in her 50's that told me a story about how when she was starting out / broke as shit, she got money from the actors fund to help pay her utilities. Every paycheck since then, she has dontated part of it to the fund as a way to give back to the people who helped her. And like Harriet said, its the real 'human element' of working in the theatre. I don't see this type of thing working in a business or science atmosphere.
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