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Series IX: Archived Websites

Extent

9 websites in 9 archived websites.

Scope and Content Note

The Actors' Equity website contains their newsletter, Equity News, news listings, member benefits, agreements, election information, meeting listings and campaigns related to tax fairness, supporting Equity tours, and award eligibility. The series also includes a campaign website for supporters of Actors' Equity during their bargaining with the Broadway League in 2022 and the 2022 convention training website.

The series also includes the websites for the Actor's Equity Foundation, which details grant funding, awards, and other funding opportunities. Additionally it also contains the organization's history, staff, and structure. The Equity League website details benefits available to actors including health insurance information, pension information, 401k plan information, employer-specific information, and a blog.

Historical Note

Actors' Equity Association is the union that represents actors and stage managers in the United States. The Actor's Equity Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1962 to provide grant funding to theaters, financial support for agencies within the arts community, and and financial awards to individual actors. Ask If It's Equity! is intended to promote AEF affiliated touring Broadway shows and features a searchable list of AEF touring theater companies. Everyone On Stage is a campaign advocating for ensemble and chorus actors' eligibility for Tony and other industry awards. Tax Fairness for Entertainment Workers is a coalition of organizations, including Actors' Equity, that supports the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA). PATPA seeks to restore tax fairness for entertainment workers by allowing the deduction of essential work expenses through updating the Qualified Performing Artist (QPA) deduction.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued semiannually.

Appraisal

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of https://www.actorsequity.org/, https://askifitsequity.com/, http://everyoneonstage.com/, http://www.actorsequityfoundation.org/, https://equitycontoolkit.my.canva.site/, https://www.taxfairness4entertainmentworkers.org/, and http://equityleague.org/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012