www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association has published Progress During an Atypical Year: Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps in Theatre in 2021. The latest installment in Equity's series of Hiring Bias and Wage Gaps reports, this document examines employment opportunity and average salaries for members of the union in 2021. This report found that the industry may be making progress towards diversity and equity in union jobs for stage managers and actors.
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I am always interested in learning more about the Actors’ Equity Association because of how affected I will be in the future by them. I hope to be part of this union in the future and it’s nice to see how they are becoming more diverse and including more contracts in their union. This article is interesting because the report has been tracking the union’s data since 2013, and I think that is inspiring because they are constantly checking themselves and their progress through these reports. The fact that the executive director of Actors’ Equity is excited about how the trends of the report will allow them to “better advocate for [their] members” is something that is refreshing to see in the theatre industry. I am hopeful that this trend continues and that more diverse opportunities and communities are created. Overall, I think this report helps the Actors’ Equity Association stay on track for meeting its goals and sticking to creating a better place to work for all its members.
It’s nice to hear at least from the article that the Actor’s Equity Association is seeing small trends in improving diversity within the industry by tracking the race/gender/orientation/etc of contracts. It’s hard to know how fast/much progress is being made within the theatre industry because sometimes you read articles like this on or just assume things are getting better as new generations take up the field–but other times you hear reports and statistics from famous and acclaimed theatres and operas like the Metropolitan Opera who are still extremely lacking in diversity on and off stage. I like to imagine equity and diversity are increasing within the industry, but even just looking at the current Freshmen DP class there’s still quite a ways to go in diversifying the future designers and leaders of shows. I hope the AEA’s findings in trends towards a more equal industry of performers and artist continues to persist exponentially.
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