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Joined: 12/31/69

#0Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 8:59pm

Just out of curiosity, how do you get one?

Kringas
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05

#1re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 9:06pm

Get a what?

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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05

#2re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 9:12pm

equity card?

www.actorsequity.com

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Thesbijean

Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04

#3re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:17pm

The only way to get them these days is bid on one on EBAY...

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BSoBW2
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04

#4re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:18pm

I hear Shoshana Bean is auctioning hers.

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Joined: 12/31/69

#5re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:24pm

sorry, i forgot to write "card"

i looked on the website, but it dosen't have any info on how to get one.
all i can find is all of the discounts you get when you have the card.

songbird21

Chorus Member Joined: 12/28/05

#6re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:27pm

I'm really not sure myself, but I really don't think you can just apply for a card and get one. I guess you'd have to be in a semi-professional production or something along those lines.

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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/05

#7re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 10:56pm

There are 3 ways to get an equity card.

1. They have what is basically a points system. Work 50 (I believe) week as a non equity preformer in an equity production, and you get one point for each week. You are then elligable. Points can be accumulated in multiple productions.

2. Get hired as while you are non equity for a production that needs a certain percent of equity actors. It is possible to be offered papers on the spot which can be signed for your equity card.

3. If you are a member of another preformance related/based union, SAG for example, you can automatically get an equity card.

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#8re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:31pm

the info is on the website. i looked at it yesterday.

Look harder, as Rafiki would say.

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~

There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~

It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~

Thesbijean

Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04

#9re: Actor's Equity...??
Posted: 3/21/06 at 11:37pm

BSoBW2,

Couldn't have said it better myself...

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