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Actors' Equity Launches Emergency 'Curtain Up' Fund to Help Members Financially During COVID-19 Pandemic

by Andy Lefkowitz

Actors' Equity Association, the national labor union representing professional actors and stage managers in live theater, has announced the Actors' Equity Emergency Curtain Up Fund. Equity has issued a grant to The Actors Fund to provide support for members at risk due to work cancellations resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity is contributing $500,000 to launch the fund and will match another $250,000 of cont…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 2:03pm on March 24, 2020