Actors’ Equity Members Ratify Three-Year Contract Agreement With Broadway League

UPDATE: Actors’ Equity Association members have ratified a new three-year agreement with The Broadway League, the union announced today.

The Production Contract: Broadway and Sit-Downs governs employment in shows on Broadway, as well as in sit-down shows produced by members of the Broadway League elsewhere in the United States. The new agreement will be in effect through September 28, 2025.*

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Elements of the contract, the union says, are minimum salary increases at 5%, 4%, 4% in each year of the three-year agreement; better paid sick time benefits for everyone; two fewer 10/12s; decrease of weekly rehearsal hours allowed after opening; and an additional personal day off for everyone.

“We went into this negotiation with an ambitious package reflecting the priorities of actors and stage managers working this contract,” said Kate Shindle, president of Actors’ Equity Association. “While we certainly didn’t achieve all of them, we did make progress: fewer 10/12s, fewer rehearsal hours after opening, significant EDI advances, paid sick leave for the entire Equity company, more stage manager preproduction, increases in some chorus increments and our highest overall salary gains in decades.”

PREVIOUS, Dec. 1: Actors’ Equity Association, the national union representing actors and stage managers, has reached a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement with The Broadway League, the national trade organization of theater owners and producers.

Details on the agreement were not disclosed, but the two sides have been at the bargaining table since September over Equity-supported contract changes involving coverage of understudies, swings and additional stage managers.

The agreement for the production contract that governs Broadway shows and sit-down productions across the country remains subject to ratification by Equity members in a vote by electronic ballot.

Earlier this month, Equity staged a rally in Manhattan’s theater district to support the contract changes.

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