Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
#1Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:26am
I adore Jill Paice.
I'm a little confused as to how she is able to continue to originate roles in London. It seems like it's a pretty big deal for an American actress to go to London and do a show. I know there are big time trades involved...but it seems like she has some sort of exemption or something. Does anybody have the info?
another question, It seems like the only reason americans get to perform in London is if they are huge stars. I believe there is something specific written in the rules written by equity. How did she even get considered for Woman in White when she was literally just fresh out of college. Im so glad she did, becuase she's fantastic. I'm just curious.
#2re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:30amI always wondered about her. It's not like with Drew Sarich or Michael McCarthy (thanks to marriage). No article has ever really addressed how she's able to do that...how frustrating!
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:30amI may be completely wrong in this, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm not, but the union rules here in the US are more stringent than in the UK... the "trades" are required by Equity here, not the in London. You have it backwards.
#3re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:34amShe may have joint citizenship. I'm totally guessing but John Barrowman works on both sides of the pont, a little more in the Uk, without have the be traded.
#4re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 1:42amI was under the impression it went both ways...
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#5re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:32am
The equity trade is for the benifit of US equity. UK Equity doesn't really need that.
She could be there via a work visa too.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#6re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:43am
I thought I read somewhere that she was born in England.
UK/European Equity doesn't seem to care that much about that sort of thing, look at all the bios that list German and European tours in the credits.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#7re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 8:51am
Jill was born in America.
I am still willing to bet that UK doesn't care about the equity thing and that she is there under a work visa.
theatreislife
Swing Joined: 3/13/08
#8re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 9:52amI thought that Ann ( Drew's wife) was from either Austria or Germany ( may have spent time as a child in France) not the UK and he was born in Missouri.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#9re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:19am
"She could be there via a work visa too."
She's obviously there under a work visa. Even under a trade agreement with Equity she would need a work visa since she's not an English citizen.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#10re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 10:23amDrew is from America. I think his wife is somewhere from Europe. There was some either backstage or interview video about Beauty closing. She was eiather the last babbett or one of the last. Anyway, I heard her speak and her accent is clearly Europian. I couldn't spot exactly where it was from. But, it was europian.
#11re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/7/08 at 11:42am
Is Europian like European?
http://www.annmandrella.com/
CueMe
Swing Joined: 4/7/08
#12re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 10:23amI would bet, that just like for WOMAN IN WHITE, Jill is there on an exchange, and there'll be a British Actor working on Broadway at some point because of it.
#13re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 1:41pmThere are actually a few Americans in the cast of GONE WITH THE WINDS in London. They are working under an AEA / British Exchange: possibly a partial trade for Russell/Evans' Broadway appearance in SUNDAY at the Roundabout. The rules barring performers from crossing the pond for work are largely a thing of the past...
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#14re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 1:46pm
I was watching the vlog for the show on youtube. It seemed that there were just as many American actors in the cast as there were British.
I thought that the trade thing was an eye for an eye type of deal. In other words, one British actor for one American actor and so on and so forth. I never realized that you could do more then one actor.
helloagain
Understudy Joined: 2/22/06
#15re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/8/08 at 3:51pm
I'm just curious I am a High School student in America but I have Dual Citizenship in America and England as I was born in England with two American parents. (don't want to explain it all but I have two passports) What I am wondering is that when and if I do get my equity card will I be able to seamlessly work in both America and England? How exactly will it work?
Thanks sorry if this is off-topic but it seemed on to me.
KcSu1326
Swing Joined: 10/19/06
#16re: Jill Paice-Gone With The Wind/U.K. Equity?
Posted: 4/9/08 at 1:59pmJill is American. I go to Baldwin-Wallace for music theatre and Jill went here as well. I am pretty sure she is from Ohio, in fact. Equity in England had to agree to give her a contract in exchange for American equity giving an English actor a contract. THey did the same thing for Woman in White. It is a huge deal, it doesn't happen often.
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