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A fair pay campaign for off-Broadway actors recently led to historic increases. Diep Tran examines how it pulled it off. 

In 2015, actors Carson Elrod and Nick Westrate ran into each other at an Actors’ Equity Association meeting in New York City. The room was filled with actors discussing how to get better touring contracts. On the elevator ride down, the two actors began talking and wondered aloud: Why wasn’t there a similar meeting for Off-Broadway actors? After all, they and every actor they knew seemed to face the same struggle: They weren’t making enough Off-Broadway to pay their bills and cover their living expenses... Keep reading on American Theatre

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