AGVA, AGMA and AFM Performer Unions
Unions other than SAG, AFTRA and Equity protect performers and actors with careers in the entertainment industry. Three examples are AGVA, AGMA and AFM.
AGVA
The American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) is an actors union, which represents certain performers in Broadway, off-Broadway and cabaret productions, as well as live performers in variety shows, touring productions, and theme parks. Jurisdiction between AGVA and Equity may require case-by-case determination. Members include the Rockette dancers at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
For more information, contact AGVA at 212-675-1003. Mailing address: American Guild of Variety Artists, 184 Fifth Ave., 6th floor, New York, NY 10010. (The union currently do not have a website.)
AGMA
The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) represents opera and concert singers, production personnel, and dancers at principal opera, concert and dance companies throughout the United States.
According to AGMA's member-information handbook, in addition to improving contractual provisions for members' wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment, AGMA works to expand protection of health and safety concerns and towards the elimination of hazardous workplace conditions such as poisonous smoke and fog and unsafe raked stages. Additionally, the guild is dedicated to protecting the multitude of members' professional and legal rights. For more information, contact the guild directly.
AFM
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) represents the interests of professional musicians. Whether negotiating fair agreements, protecting ownership of recorded music, securing benefits such as health care and pension, or lobbying legislators, the AFM is committed to raising entertainment industry standards and placing the professional musician in the foreground of the cultural landscape, according to AFM's website. For more information, contact the guild directly.
LINKS
AGVA
Website for American Guild of Variety Artists.
Website for American Guild of Musical Artists
Website for American Federation of Musicians
Equity, AGMA Try to Control Rockettes Pact
Actors' Equity Association and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), in a newly united effort, are attempting to stage a coup against the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), the union that represents the legendary dance troupe the Rockettes in its contract with Radio City Music Hall.
Equity, AGMA Split Over Pact
Actors' Equity Association and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)—two performers' unions that have in recent years made an attempt at co-jurisdiction on Broadway and considered the possibility of merger—have parted ways.
Musicians Okay B'way Pact
Broadway musicians, who struck for four days in March to protect so-called orchestra "minimums" in Main Stem theatres, have approved their new contract with producers.
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NY Panel on How to Run a Theater Company
December 02, 2008
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) and Back Stage will host the networking panel, How to Run That Theater Company That¿s Been Running Your Life, a follow-up to September's panel, on Wednesday, December 17.
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