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The Broadway shutdown continues with the coronavirus pandemic affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund in March, has come to the community’s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks. The record-breaking fund, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic …
The Broadway shutdown continues with the coronavirus pandemic affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund in March, has come to the community’s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks.
The record-breaking fund, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic living expenses such as essential medications, housing costs, food and utilities, Broadway World reports.
“The kind of collaboration and generosity we’ve seen over the past two months from our entertainment industry union and guild partners, including SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, and the IATSE, as well as thousands of individual donors, has been nothing short of staggering,” said Actors Fund President and CEO Joseph Benincasa in a statement.
“It is an unbelievable honor to be able to do so much good for so many people, thanks to the unprecedented level of support we continue to receive.”
Chairman of the Actors Fund board, Brian Stokes Mitchell, 62, told the outlet: “Looking at a number — even one as large as $10 million — doesn’t begin [to] tell the whole story. In an instant, our friends and supporters, people like Rosie O’Donnell, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley and others, began dreaming of entirely new fund-raising models that would prove to be nothing short of lifesaving. In all my years working with the Fund, I’ve never been so moved, so inspired, or so grateful.”
