Zoe Angus has quit as national director of Equity at MEAA to join SPA.
The performers, writers and directors who will participate in Australia’s first Diversity Showcase have been selected by industry judging panels from more than 500 applicants.
Veteran actress Noeline Brown will be honoured with the 2017 Equity Lifetime Achievement Award.
Footage from a 1956 Actors Equity protest about the lack of local content quotas and the dominance of foreign production on television, courtesy of Haydn Keenan.
Actor Roy Billing launched the campaign calling for the relaxation of restrictions on casting overseas actors in Australian screen productions, and he’s not giving up.
Broadcast networks in Australia and around the world that don’t embrace the diversity of their local cultures in their programming will lose audiences to other media outlets that address that need.
Leading members of the arts and entertainment industry will gather at the Sydney Theatre Company in October for a two-day summit to mark Actors Equity’s 75th anniversary.
The chorus of voices calling for a review of the process for approving imported actors in Australian taxpayer-funded film and TV productions is growing louder.