Brooke Shields has taken over America's stage actors' union at a moment of crisis.
While show-goers have flocked back to concerts and sporting events, live theater attendance still lags pre-pandemic times, sidelining the industry longer than others shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic.
The storied Actors' Equity Association union, representing 51,000 actors and managers from Broadway to San Francisco, is also fighting a high-profile battle for its first contract for Disneyland Resort performers in Anaheim, Calif. And there's an ongoing strike against theaters for higher pay for shows in development. Plus, the union's stop legislative priority is to get Congress to rewrite tax policy so that unreimbursed business expenses are tax deductible again, a 2017 change that hit the industry hard.
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