Notice to Members Currently or Previously Represented by BBA Talent

Dear Member, 

SAG-AFTRA has received reports that there may be some financial/accounting irregularities with respect to the above-referenced agency’s payment obligations to SAG-AFTRA members pursuant to the Union’s franchise requirements. 

As a precaution, SAG-AFTRA advises you at this time to review your own records regarding any SAG-AFTRA covered work that you have completed through this agency. Should you discover any abnormalities in how payments were made to you for SAG-AFTRA-covered work, please notify the Union’s Professional Representatives Department by the close of business on Wednesday, May 24th, 2023. The Union will assist you in any way it can to rectify the situation. If, however, you fail to discover any irregularities in your agency’s payment obligations to you, SAG-AFTRA reminds you of your continuing obligation to promptly pay your agent [within ten (10) days of receipt] its rightful commission, as it becomes due. If you are confused about your obligations hereunder (or indeed, your agent’s obligations to you), please do not hesitate to contact our office for assistance. 

Regarding any existing check authorizations: At this time, SAG-AFTRA would also like to remind you of your right to revoke any and all check authorizations currently on file for this agency, if you wish to do so. For TV/TH work, please contact residual.trust@sagaftra.org or call 855-724-2387 for this purpose. For commercials work, please note you also have the right to revoke any and all check authorizations in that field by contacting the applicable paymaster and requesting its : At this time, SAG-AFTRA would also like to remind you of your right to revoke any and all check authorizations currently on file for this agency, if you wish to do so. For TV/TH work, please contact residual.trust@sagaftra.org or call 855-724-2387 for this purpose. For commercials work, please note you also have the right to revoke any and all check authorizations in that field by contacting the applicable paymaster and requesting its assistance. Again, please note that the potential revocation of any pre-existing check authorizations does not negate your continuing obligation to promptly pay your agent commissions if and when such sums are owed. 

This notice is in regards to all work covered by SAG-AFTRA’s jurisdiction only. 

By copy of this letter, we are also placing BBA Talent Agency on notice and reminding it of its obligations that any and all talent payment checks now in its possession, or which may hereafter be received by it in connection with SAG-AFTRA represented performers, are to be held in trust for the benefit of the performer on whose behalf the check is issued, in accordance with SAG-AFTRA Agency Regulations, and applicable state law. BBA remains a fiduciary under the law and under the SAG-AFTRA agency regulations. 

Please do not hesitate to contact SAG-AFTRA’s Professional Representatives Department at 323-549-6745, if you have any outstanding questions. This department can be reached by email at agency@sagaftra.org or by calling 323-549-6745. Thank you for your attention to this matter.