AEA/SAG-AFTRA agreement paves way for digital theater options post-pandemic
The new agreement gives a little bit of certainty in this time of uncertainty, says Susi Damilano of SF Playhouse.
Lily Janiak December 15, 2020Updated: December 15, 2020, 6:57 pm
Actor Nora el Samahy waits for staff to clear up technical difficulties during a rehearsal for the upcoming play “Disbelief,” which is part of PlayGround’s Zoom Fest, at PlayGround’s PlaySpace in Berkeley. Photo: Michael Short / Special to The Chronicle
If much of theater has gone digital since the pandemic, a new agreement between two performers unions hints that the art form might have online options indefinitely.
Kayleaser Deveaux-Isaacs
Bridgetown, Barbados - The General Manager of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas, BCB, Mrs. Kayleaser Deveaux-Isaacs has been appointed Vice President of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, CBU, with effect from December 9, 2020. She was elected by the Board at its monthly meeting to fill a vacancy created when Mrs. Amalia Mai of Great Belize Production demitted office recently.
Mrs. Deveaux-Isaacs has been a member of the Board for over three years now and her BCB organisation which operates ZNS Radio and Television has been a member of the CBU for almost three decades.
President of the Union, Gary Allen congratulated the new Vice President noting that she takes on additional responsibilities in the Union at a time when broadcasters in the region have been called upon to do a lot more public service due to the impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). He noted that her role in leading ZNS through two recent hurricanes and