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Actors’ Equity Association has announced that Pete DeMay will be the union’s new central regional director/assistant executive director effective immediately. 

Actors’ Equity Association has announced that Brandon Lorenz will be the union’s new national communications director effective Monday, March 6, 2017. 

On September 20, 2015, Equity President Kate Shindle and Executive Director Mary McColl welcomed theater industry colleagues, Equity members and Eastern Region Councillors for a special toast to the upcoming season.

Theodore Bikel passed away at the age of 91 on July 21, 2015, at UCLA Medical of natural causes.

In late September, the International Federation of Actors, or FIA, held its yearly meeting of the executive committee in Paris.

In a move to expand its outreach and services to members of the theatre community, the Actors’ Equity Foundation, a philanthropic and humanitarian nonprofit organization, has hired Joan Glazer as its managing director.

Actors’ Equity has announced the selection of Ralph Remington as Western regional director/assistant executive director, effective January 2014.  Remington succeeds Mary Lou Westerfield, who steps down from the post at the end of the year.

Actors’ Equity  has announced the selection of Sean Taylor as Central regional director/assistant executive director effective Monday, November 11, 2013. Taylor succeeds Christine Provost, who stepped down from the post in August.

After a long career on the Equity staff, Mary Lou Westerfield will step down as Western Regional Director/Assistant Executive Director at the end of 2013. She will continue with Equity, working on several key projects through the end of May, 2014, at which time she will retire