Casting professionals who are also actors have been banned from running for elected office at SAG-AFTRA. The ruling came down today at a meeting of the union’s national board of directors.
Deemed “management,” casting professionals are now also barred from serving as members of SAG-AFTRA negotiating committees, and as delegates to the union’s biennial conventions.The ban, which came to the board as a referral from the 2019 convention, applies to anyone “who regularly works as a Casting Professional, including but not limited to Casting Directors, Casting Supervisors, Casting Associates, Casting Session Directors and Casting Assistants,” according to the resolution approved by the board.
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