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All new SAG-AFTRA members pay a one-time-only initiation fee, plus the first semiannual dues at the time of joining. Initiation loans are available.
- Membership & Benefits
Membership is a significant rite of passage for every...
- Steps to Join
Steps to Join. A performer becomes eligible for SAG-AFTRA...
- Membership & Benefits
- Get Hired on A Union Gig
- Create Your Own Content
- Join A Sister Union
The most common way actors get their SAG-AFTRA card is by booking a gig that’s covered under a collective bargaining agreement with the actor’s union. The Taft-Hartley Actallows producers to hire nonunion talent if the actor demonstrates a skill that can’t be found, after a reasonable search, within the union stock. If the producers have negotiated...
SAG-AFTRA’s New Media, Special New Media, Ultra Low Budget, Moderate Low Budget, and Short Project agreements cover original content for independent producers. If you’re producing your own work and have the budget to be considered under one of the union’s categories, you can make yourself SAG-AFTRA if you’re capable of hiring other union actors on ...
Members of a number of other entertainment unions—Equity, ACTRA, AGMA, or AGVA—are eligible for SAG-AFTRA membership after one year (and one principal contract) under their affiliated union’s jurisdiction. This rule encourages professional actors to work union as much as possible, even when crossing over from music, opera, or stage performance to f...
3 ways to get into SAG. A performer may become eligible for Screen Actors Guild membership under one of the following conditions
Nov 13, 2023 · SAG stands for the Screen Actors Guild labor union, which merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) in 2012 to create SAG-AFTRA.
Aug 15, 2012 · Here are eight things you need to know about the process of joining SAG: 1. The cost/payment. The current national initiation fee rate is $2,277 plus the first semiannual dues. Joining fees are ...
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