Cross Contractuals
This Staff person gets all our Media questions
Who is Dragica Dabo?
Council (usually) meets on this weekday each month
What is Tuesday?
Someone who negotiates on behalf of an individual member for a fee
What is an agent (or a manager) ?
This was a regional contract that is rarely used now, based in Louisiana
What is NOLA or New Orleans Louisiana Agreement?
When a stage has a slight incline its called
What is a raked stage? (Or an inclined playing surface)
This, now defunct, committee used to govern all aspects of principal auditions
What is EPA (Equity Principal Auditions) committee?
This is the next in line to chair a council meeting if the president is not available
Who is the 1st Vice President?
This is when the wages and/or terms of one actor’s contract cannot be less than that of other cast members.
What is (most) favored nations?
This agreement is administered by the Production contract for a NYC organization that does revivals of Musicals for short runs
What is City Center Encores?
The legal obligation on the part of the union, as exclusive representative of a bargaining unit, to represent all of the employees, members and non-members alike, fairly without discrimination, obvious negligence, or through arbitrary or capricious decisions
What is Duty of Fair Representation, or DFR?
This is a new committee that focuses on the concerns and issues relating to our members who play instruments
What is the Actor/Instrumentalist Committee?
Where you upload your CARs
What is the Governance Support Doc site?
When someone chooses to leave a contract outside of the terms, this can sometimes be a way to ease the waters
What is a mutual termination?
This title of a contract can only be used by certain bargaining partners who have negotiated specific terms for short, development projects- the name of it causes some confusion
What is the Stage Reading Contract?
What NAGBOR stands for
What is Net Adjusted Gross Box Office Receipts
This committee makes recommendations, and has "advisory" in its title
What is ACCA (Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs)?
This is when a councilor makes a motion to vote on whether to vote
What is to call to question?
The plan that producers have to make regarding common diseases that may occur within their organization
What are Infection Control protocols/policies?
When Equity generates the terms of the agreement.
What is promulgation?
This regional contract started its life as a code
What is 99 Seat?
We send our cross contractual memos to these places (name 5)
What are- SM Committee, ACCA, Media, International Actors, Actor/Instrumentalist, Principal, Safe and Sanitary, EEO, Committee to Prevent Harassment?
The deadline when questions or comments about a Special Order of Business must have been received by
What is the Thursday prior to the council meeting?
Lots of people accused Equity of requiring this during the start of the return to theatre
What is a covid vaccination
This contract covers live events where the primary purpose is to promote, either directly or indirectly, a product or service.
What is Business Theatre and Events?
Formed in 1899 this craft union for actors in Yiddish theater in the United States was the first actors' union in the United States
What is the Hebrew Actors' Union