Your professional acting career will probably include performing in Commercials, TV, Industrials and Movies. AFTRA and SAG are the professional actors' unions that have jurisdiction over these areas as-well-as:
Screen Actors Guild (SAG):
- Principal performers appearing in feature motion pictures
- All other types of productions shot on film.
- Extra Players in feature motion pictures
- Television programming
- Non-broadcast films and commercials in certain areas.
- Shares with AFTRA video tape jurisdiction for:
- Television programs
- Television commercials
- Industrial/educational programs
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
- Live television
- Radio programs
- Radio commercials
- Musical recordings
- New technologies like interactive programming and CD ROMs
- Shares with the Screen Actors Guild video tape jurisdiction for:
- Television programs
- Television commercials
- Industrial/educational programs
- AFTRA represents performer catagories such as: Actors, Announcers, Dancers, Disc Jockeys, Newspersons, Singers, Specialty Acts, Sportscasters and Stuntpersons.
- AFTRA contracts can also cover Contract and Principal Players, "Under-5's" and Extras.
To get current information re: how to qualify for admission to AFTRA and SAG, call or write to the regional office closest to you.
If you think you aren't ready to join a union yet, get information anyway so you can plan for your future. Don't wait.
AFTRA Offices
(American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
EASTERN LOCALS
Click on the Local name to get to their Web page.
Barry Stoltze, President
Melissa Goodman, Executive Director
455 East Paces Ferry Road, NE
Suite 334
Atlanta, GA 30305
404.239.0131
404.239.0137 fax
atlanta@aftra.com
Paul Horn, President
Dona Sommers, Executive Director
20 Park Plaza
Suite 822
Boston, MA 02116-4399
617.262.8001
617.262.3006 fax
boston@aftra.com
Mylous Hairston, Local President
c/o WIVB-TV 2077 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14207
716.879.4989
716.634.0514 fax
mylous@aol.com
Guillermo "Memo" Sauceda, Local President
Herta Suarez, Executive Director/South East Regional Director
3050 Biscayne Boulevard
Suite 501
Miami, FL 33137
305.571.9891
305.571.9892 fax
miami@aftra.com
Holter Graham, President
Stephen Burrow, Executive Director
AFTRA New York
260 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(Between 38th St. & 39th St.)
212.532.0800
212.545.1238 fax
aftrany@aftra.com
Catherine Brown, President
Stephen Leshinski, Executive Director
230 South Broad Street, Suite 500
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1229
215.732.0507
215.732.0086 fax
philadelphia@aftra.com
Paul Martino, President
John Haer, Executive Director
625 Stanwix Street, Suite 2007
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412.281.6767
412.281.2444 fax
pittsburgh@aftra.com
Joe Krebs, President
Pat O'Donnell, Executive Director
7735 Old Georgetown Road
Suite 950
Bethesda, MD 20814
301.657.2560
601.656.3615 fax
wash_balt@aftra.com
June Baller, President
87 Fairlea Drive
Rochester, NY 14622
juneballer@hotmail.com
Jack Aernecke & Peter Brancato Shop Coordinators
c/o WRGB-TV 1400 Balltown Road
Schenectady, NY 12309
518.346.6666
518.346.6249 fax
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CENTRAL LOCALS
Click on the Local name to get to their Web site.
CHICAGO
Craig Dellimore, President
Eileen Willenborg, Executive Director
One East Erie, Suite 650
Chicago, IL 60611
312.573.8081
312.573.0318 fax
chicago@aftra.com
Mike Kraft, President
Catherine Nowlin, Executive Director
820 West Superior Avenue, Suite 240
Cleveland, OH 44113-1800
216.781.2255
216.781.2257 fax
cleveland@aftra.com
Brent Anderson, President
T.J. Jones, Texas Regional Director
6060 N. Central Expressway, Suite 468
Dallas, TX 75206
214.363.8300
214.363.5386 fax
dallas@aftra.com
Jayne Bower, President
Lorain Obomanu, Executive Director/National Representative
Dennis Albers, Assistant Executive Director
23800 West Ten Mile Road, Suite 228
Southfield, MI 48033
Tel: 248.228.3171
Fax: 248.223.9223
detroit@aftra.com
Michelle Robinson, President
T.J. Jones, Texas Regional Director
6060 N. Central Expressway, Suite 468
Dallas, TX 75206
214.363.8300
214.363.5386 fax
houston@aftra.com
Christine Colby Jacques, Local President
John D. Miller, Executive Director
Sylvia Stucky, Assistant Executive Director
P.O. Box 32167
4000 Baltimore, 2nd Floor
Kansas City, MO 64111
816.753.4557
816.753.1234 fax
kansascity@aftra.com
CeCe DuBois, President
Randall Himes, Executive Director
P.O. Box 121087
1108 17th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212
615,327.2944
615.329.2803 fax
nashville@aftra.com
Diana Boylston Clark, President
Herta Suarez, Southeastern Regional Director
c/o Miami Local
3050 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 501
Miami, FL 33137
305.571.9891
305.571.9892 fax
800.330.2387
neworleans@aftra.com
Tom Rock, President
3000 Farnam St.
Omaha, NE 68131
(402) 346-8384
Garry Moore, President
c/o Station WEEK-TV 2907
Springfield Road
East Peoria, IL 61611
(309) 698-3737
(309) 698-2070 fax
gmoore@week.com
Mary Ann Carson, President
John Miller, Executive Director
Maureen O'Brien, Freelance Specialist
1310 Papin Street, Suite 103
St. Louis, MO 63103
Office: 314.231.8410
Toll Free: 1.866.895.8411
Fax: 314.231.8412
stlouis@aftra.com
Denise Dal Vera, President
John Haer, Executive Director
Tim Williams, National Broadcast Representative
1056 Delta Avenue, #4
Cincinnati, OH 45208
513.579.8668
513.579.1617 fax
tristate@aftra.com
Shawn Hamilton, President
Colleen Aho, Executive Director
2610 University Avenue West
Suite 350
St. Paul, MN 55114
651.789.8990
651.789.8993 fax
twincities@aftra.com
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WESTERN LOCALS
Click on the local name to get to their Web page.
Denis Berkfeldt, President
Julie Crane, Executive Director
1400 16th Street, Suite #400
Denver, CO 80202
720.932.8228
720.932.8194 fax
denver@aftra.com
Denny Delk, Local President
Frank Du Charme, Executive Director
350 Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco CA 94104
415.391.7510
415.391.1108 fax
888.238.7250 toll free phone
sf@aftra.com
AFTRA - Hawaii Local
260 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10016
866.634.8100
hawaii@aftra.com
Ron Morgan, Local President
William F. Thomas, Executive Director
5757 Wilshire Blvd., 9th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323.634.8100
323.634.8246 fax
losangeles@aftra.com
Joe Corcoran, President
Roxanne Chaisson, Executive Director
20325 N. 51st Avenue
Suite 134
Glendale, AZ 85308
623.687.9977 Office
623.362.2218 Fax
phoenix@aftra.com
Mary MacDonald-Lewis, President
Wesley Jones, Executive Director
1001 SE Water Ave., #305
Portland, OR 97214
503.279.9600
503.279.9603 fax
portland@aftra.com
Frank Du Charme, Executive Director
350 Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco CA 94104
888.238.7250 toll free
415.391.7510
415.391.1108 fax
sf@aftra.com
Ed Badrak, President
Staff Contact: Lawrence Mayberry, Director, Broadcast
c/o AFTRA Los Angeles
5757 Wilshire Boulevard, 9th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90036
866.634.8100 toll free (For San Diego members only)
323.634.8118
323.634.8246 Fax
sd@aftra.com
Denny Delk, Local President
Frank Du Charme, Executive Director
350 Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 391-7510
(415) 391-1108 fax
sf@aftra.com
Steve Krueger, Local President
Brad Anderson, Executive Director
123 Boylston Avenue East, Suite A
Seattle, WA 98102
206.282.2506
206.282.7073 fax
seattle@aftra.com
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SAG Offices
(Screen Actors Guild)
Other Union Jurisdictions
Performers' Unions improve basic working conditions for their members through collective bargaining to secure minimum (scale) salaries, safe and humane work conditions, retirement benefits, health benefits and a variety of other things which are important for their members. Each Union has its own membership requirements, initiation fees, dues, constitutions, bylaws, rules, regulations, and governing bodies.
Actors Equity Association
The labor union that represents more than 48,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans, for its members. Actors' Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.
American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA)
The American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) is an AFL-CIO-affiliated labor union founded in 1939 to represent performing artists and stage managers for live performances in the variety field. The variety area of performance includes singers & dancers in touring shows and in theatrical revues (non-book shows...book revues may be under Actors' Equity jurisdiction), theme park performers, skaters, circus performers, comedians & stand-up comics, cabaret & club artists, lecturers/poets/monologists/spokespersons, and variety performers working at private parties & special events.
American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
Represents current and retired opera singers, ballet and other dancers, opera Directors, backstage production personnel at opera and dance companies, and figure skaters.
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