The Washington Post: Heather Fink got her big break just as the coronavirus outbreak began to ramp up across the United States. The independent film director, who works more consistently as a sound utility and boom operator, was hired to make her second feature after three months of disability leave for a work-related knee injury. She was set to travel to Oklahoma on Monday to begin the preproduction stage.
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What is happening in the world is sad as it is that when things such these come up, one cannot help but feel depressed and hopeless for anyone and everyone involved. Given that all offices and projects have been, for the time being, brought to a halt given the present circumstances, the least that can be done for the civilian population is to make sure that they are not struggling a lot to make ends meet or to be able to find jobs.
Sadly, as it seems, this is the case with the theater crew workers in LA. By showing a comparison between the different strata of entertainment workers, and how the affect on each strata's economic condition is so starkingly different tells us how at this point, people who are well to do can very well handle not going to work which is not the case with our other employees.
In this scenario, it makes sense and seems like the most useful solution that some sort of aid be given to these people who are now out of their jobs because of government imposed restrictions.
My heart really does go out to all of the theater technicians and behind the scenes people who are going to be greatly affected by this shut down. I know it feels personal for people in my position because drama students are very connected to our own theater community at school and at home, but what we are feeling really cannot compare with the difficulties that people in the field are facing. This is such an unfortunate time for this shut down because this is a time that a lot of summer projects are in development, which could be and probably already has been disastrous for the people that have already invested in this work. I know personally that the entertainment company I work for back home just finished working out contracts for projects over the summer, which is time they won't be getting back, and now they are trying to find ways to salvage those projects in a way that will sustain the company through these hard times. I just hope that we can find ways to support the arts through this time or it will be a while before this industry will be able to recover.
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