Wash-Mid Atlantic

Join your Washington-Mid Atlantic SAG-AFTRA siblings in solidarity on Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 8 a.m. for informational leafleting at Amazon’s HQ2 in Crystal City. Amazon’s studio, Amazon Prime, is responsible for producing a variety of very well known productions. SAG-AFTRA members, along with labor movement kin and allies, will be gathering together in support of our rights, our livelihoods and our futures! We want to make sure everyone knows that Amazon Prime and the other major studios and streamers are refusing to negotiate a fair deal with our members, including the very people appearing in  Amazon Prime Original series.

SAG-AFTRA will be leafleting Amazon HQ2 in three shifts. Please RSVP to one (1) shift. The other times are 11:00AM-3:00PM and 3:00-6:00PM. 

When you arrive, please sign in with designated SAG-AFTRA staff. We have a limited amount of SAG-AFTRA STRONG T-shirts for SAG-AFTRA members which will be handed out to members on a first-come first-served basis. To receive a SAG-AFTRA STRONG t-shirt, please bring your SAG-AFTRA member ID card or digital card in the member app. If you already have some SAG-AFTRA gear to wear, please do! Don’t forget your hat, sunscreen and water bottle!

Be sure to show your support on social media with #SAGAFTRAStrike, #SAGAFTRAStrong and #Power2Performers.

For more information on the SAG-AFTRA strike, please click HERE. 

If you have questions concerning this event in Washington, D.C., please contact Ryan Hastings at ryan.hastings@sagaftra.org.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 72 business hours before the start of the event. 

WHEN: July 26, 2023, 4:30 to 6 p.m. ET

WHERE: Please meet at the AFL-CIO (815 Black Lives Matter Plz. NW, Washington, DC 20006)

Please join your Washington-Mid Atlantic SAG-AFTRA siblings in solidarity on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. for informational leafleting of Netflix’s Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie screening at the Motion Picture Association. SAG-AFTRA members, along with labor movement kin and allies, will be gathering together in support of our rights, our livelihoods, and our futures! We want to make sure attendees to this screening know that Netflix, along with the other major studios, refuse to negotiate a fair deal with our members, including the very people who worked on Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie. (We are not discouraging anyone from attending the event).

RSVP: RSVP below by noon on Wednesday, July 26 so that we can have an estimated number of attendees. Registration is not required to attend.

When you arrive, please sign in with designated SAG-AFTRA staff. We have a limited amount of SAG-AFTRA STRONG T-shirts for SAG-AFTRA members which will be handed out on a first come first serve basis. To receive a SAG-AFTRA STRONG t-shirt, please bring your SAG-AFTRA member ID card or digital card in the member app. If you already have some SAG-AFTRA gear to wear, please do! Don’t forget your hat, sunscreen and water bottle!

Be sure to show your support on social media with #SAGAFTRAStrike, #SAGAFTRAStrong and #Power2Performers.

For more information on the SAG-AFTRA strike, please click here.

If you have questions concerning this event in Washington, D.C., please contact Ryan Hastings at Ryan.Hastings@sagaftra.org.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

WHEN: July 25, 2023, 5:30PM to 7:00PM EST

WHERE: Please meet at the AFL-CIO (815 Black Lives Matter Plz. NW, Washington, DC 20006)

Please join your Washington-Mid Atlantic SAG-AFTRA siblings in solidarity on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 5:30PM for an informational leaflet of Warner Brothers’ BLUE BEETLE screening at the Motion Picture Association. SAG-AFTRA members, along with labor movement kin and allies, will be gathering together in support of our rights, our livelihoods, and our futures! We want to make sure attendees to this screening know that Warner Brothers, along with the other major studios, refuse to negotiate a fair deal with our members, including the very people appearing in BLUE BEETLE. (We are not discouraging anyone from attending the event).

RSVP: RSVP below by noon on Tuesday, July 25 so that we can have an estimated number of attendees. Registration is not required to attend.

When you arrive, please sign in with designated SAG-AFTRA staff. We have a limited amount of SAG-AFTRA STRONG T-shirts for SAG-AFTRA members which will be handed out on a first come first serve basis. To receive a SAG-AFTRA STRONG t-shirt, please bring your SAG-AFTRA member ID card or digital card in the member app. If you already have some SAG-AFTRA gear to wear, please do! Don’t forget your hat, sunscreen and water bottle!

Be sure to show your support on social media with #SAGAFTRAStrike, #SAGAFTRAStrong, and #Power2Performers

For more information on the SAG-AFTRA strike, please click here.

If you have questions concerning this event in Washington, D.C., please contact Ryan Hastings at Ryan.Hastings@sagaftra.org.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

Please join your Washington-Mid Atlantic siblings in solidarity  on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at the AFL-CIO (815 Black Lives Matter Plz NW, Washington, DC 20006). SAG-AFTRA members, along with labor movement kin and allies, will be gathering together in support of our rights, our livelihoods, and our futures!

RSVP: RSVP below by noon on Thursday, July 20 so that we can have an estimated number of attendees. Registration is not required to attend.

When you arrive, please sign in with designated SAG-AFTRA staff. We have a limited amount of SAG-AFTRA STRONG T-shirts for SAG-AFTRA members which will be handed out on a first come first serve basis. To receive a SAG-AFTRA STRONG t-shirt, please bring your SAG-AFTRA member ID card or digital card in the member app. If you already have some SAG-AFTRA gear to wear, please do! Don’t forget your hat, sunscreen and water bottle!

Be sure to show your support on social media with #SAGAFTRAStrike, #SAGAFTRAStrong, #SAGAFTRAMembers and #Power2Performers

For more information on the SAG-AFTRA strike, please visit sagaftrastrike.org.

If you have questions concerning this event in Washington, D.C., please contact Ryan Hastings at ryan.hastings@sagaftra.org.

Whether you are new to the business and promoting yourself for the first time, or an experienced performer targeting new markets or repackaging your skills, fresh marketing ideas are essential. David DeBoy has helped hundreds of newcomers to the business — and newcomers to the Baltimore/Washington area — launch successful marketing campaigns. DeBoy wants this to be an open discussion where participants can share innovative ideas, such as using social media to help their careers. Join us to share ideas and learn what will work for you.

At the end of the presentation, there will also be an opportunity to address questions. If there is a question you would like addressed, you may submit it in advance to Colin Bouchard at colin.bouchard@sagaftra.org.

RSVP: Reservations are required. Please complete the form below to RSVP; you must be logged in to RSVP. 

This event is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA Washington-Mid Atlantic members in good standing (paid thru Oct. 31, 2023, or in compliance with the May 2023 dues relief extension). No guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

SAG-AFTRA members are invited to join the Department for Professional Employees and AFL-CIO in support of WGA at a leafleting action in Washington, D.C. this Wednesday, May 24 at 16th and Eye Street, NW. 

WGA members, along with labor movement kin and allies, will be leafleting Disney’s lobby event at the MPA (Motion Picture Association) at 1600 Eye Street, NW. The lobby event features a screening of The Little Mermaid, and we want to make sure attendees to the event know that Disney, along with the other major studios, refuse to negotiate a fair deal with WGA members, including the very people who wrote The Little Mermaid. This is not a picket line and attendees are not being discouraged from attending this event. 

 

When: Wednesday, May 24, 5:45-7:00 p.m. ET

Where: Motion Picture Association Building, 1600 Eye Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006

RSVP: RSVP below by noon on Wednesday, May 24 so that we can have an estimated number of attendees. Registration is not required to attend. 

 

When you arrive, please sign in with designated SAG-AFTRA staff. To receive a t-shirt, please bring your SAG-AFTRA member ID card or digital card in the member app.

Be sure to show your support on social media with #WGAstrong, #sagaftramember and #1u.

For information on previous communications regarding SAG-AFTRA members and the WGA strike, or for a copy of the National Board resolution in support of WGA, click here. For FAQs on the WGA strike, click here. If you have any questions about the strike, contact SAG-AFTRA at WGAstrikeinfo@sagaftra.org.

If you have questions concerning this informational leafleting in Washington, D.C., please contact Ryan Hastings at ryan.hastings@sagaftra.org.

 

REMINDERS: 

If you are contracted to work on a television series or motion picture that continues to produce while the WGA is on strike, you are obligated by your personal service agreement and the “No Strike” clause in our collective bargaining agreements to go to work. You can continue to audition for work and accept new work if you choose to do so.  

SAG-AFTRA members should not perform the duties covered by WGA contracts. You should not write anything normally written by striking WGA writers.

Finally, we must support our fellow SAG-AFTRA members on every set even if they have to cross a picket line to get to work. The WGA is aware of the requirements of our No Strike clause and our members’ individual personal service agreements, and the fact that the labor law protections that apply to striking workers do not apply to other workers whose contracts are still in effect.

Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

RSVP: Please complete the form below to RSVP by noon on Thursday, May 18 so we can have an estimated number of attendees. An RSVP is not required to attend. 

 

Please join Casting Director Jenny Ravitz on Thursday, May 25 for a Co-Star Audition class that you won’t want to miss! This presentation will focus on the best ways to prep, what your function is in the storytelling, and how to analyze the script to answer questions about character. At the end of the presentation, there will also be an opportunity to ask questions. 

Jenny Ravitz is a New York-based casting director whose past work includes the hit NBC series Chicago PD, Chicago Fire, and Chicago Med, FBI: International (CBS), and the indie film "Pretty People," which debuted at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. She is currently working independently and recently cast projects for Ars Nova, 5th Avenue Theatre, and Paper Mill Playhouse. She is an advocate for artists with chronic pain and illnesses and was named the 2021 Volunteer of the Year by the Arthritis Foundation of New York.  

RSVP: Reservations are required. Please complete the form below to RSVP; you must be logged in to RSVP. 

This event is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing (paid thru April 30, 2023, or Oct. 31, 2023, or in compliance with the May 2023 dues relief extension). No guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

Join the Washington-Mid Atlantic Local for the popular “SAG-AFTRA 101” workshop. This conversation will provide attendees with information on performer’s rights and protections, present an overview of some of the key elements of the Commercials, Corporate/Educational and Non-Broadcast, Television, and Theatrical Agreements, discuss the benefits of membership, and share the resources available to members of SAG-AFTRA. This presentation is perfect for new and veteran members alike. 

RSVP: Reservations are required. Please complete the form below to RSVP; you must be logged in to RSVP. 

This event is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members in good standing (paid thru Oct. 31, 2023 or in compliance with the May 2023 dues relief extension). No guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event. 

How long has it been since you performed live? Do you have some material you’d like to try out? Have you wanted to expand your repertoire to include singing or stand up? Interested in trying out your audition pieces?

Welcome to the SAG-AFTRA WMA Conservatory Salon! You’ll work in a safe environment with your peers to discover what material works for you and what doesn’t. You can ask for constructive feedback or just give yourself the opportunity to work in  front of a live audience. The sky’s the limit on what you can bring to the group, so don’t be afraid to explore! Each participant will have a 10 minute slot for their piece including any feedback you’d like to hear.

Moderated by Nicole Hakimohn, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. Nicole moved to the WMA Local from the Michigan Local where she served on the board as the Legacy SAG VP and SAG-AFTRA First VP. She is excited to be able to serve on the WMA board to continue her service to her fellow members.

 

RSVP: Reservations are required. Please complete the form below to RSVP; you must be logged in to RSVP. 

This event is only open to paid-up SAG-AFTRA members of the Washington-Mid Atlantic Local in good standing (paid thru April 30, 2023, oe Oct. 31, 2023). No guests are allowed. Parents/guardians of performers under 18 years old are welcome.

ADA requests may be included on your RSVP form below. Please note that ADA requests must be received 48 business hours before the start of the event.