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Notes from Arden
August: L.A. County
Dear Violet and Mattie Fae, we understand that you like to control things and that you’re exceedingly stubborn, but rather than keeping union actors out of 99-seat theaters, where nobody makes any money and people try to make art, wouldn’t your efforts be more in keeping with the traditions and ideals of your union to get your actors into the Pantages? Why do you keep picking on Little Charlie, instead? Because the unemployment figures within your own union demonstrate that whatever it is you’ve been doing all these years simply hasn’t been working.
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Being an Actor in a Town Full of Them
I left Philadelphia for Los Angeles more than 20 years ago to become a working actor. I had spent my last six years in Philadelphia on staff at People’s Light & Theatre, a LORT-D regional theatre in Malvern, and I used to know the theatre community back there. Talking with a Philadelphia-based candidate who recently ran for a seat on AEA’s council made me realize how long I’d been away. I was trying to explain to him why I was so opposed to AEA’s efforts to end the 99-Seat Plan out here in Los Angeles. It quickly became clear that I didn’t understand Philadelphia anymore, but also that he didn’t know L.A., either. –BY WENDY WORTHINGTON
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