Dinner Theatre Rulebook (Central Region) 01-05 - Actors

When there is insufficient time for the Producer to have delivered to the Actor asigned standard form Equity Dinner Theatre Employment Contract prior to thecommencement of employment and/or travel, the Producer will send to the Actor byfacsimile a signed copy of the standard form Equity Dinner Theatre EmploymentContract which shall be returned by facsimile as described above. A copy shall alsobe sent immediately by facsimile to the appropriate Equity office. Such signedfacsimile shall be recognized by AEA as a valid contract with the stipulation that thestandard-form Equity Dinner Theatre contract must be signed by the Producer andthe Actor within 24 hours of the Actor's arrival at the place of employment.(E) Quintuplicate Contracts. After entering into any employment contract, theProducer shall file with Equity an exact quintuplicate copy thereof, no later than oneweek after receipt by the Producer.(F) Attempted Breach. No Actor shall agree with a Producer, Employment Agent,Personal Representative, or other Actor, and no Producer shall agree with anyActor, Employment Agent, or Personal Representative to cause or attempt to causeor agree to permit, any breach of any term of any employment contract.Should any Equity Member engage in such conduct, he shall be subject to suchdisciplinary action as Equity may determine.Should any Producer be found by an Arbitration Award to have engaged in suchconduct, said Producer agrees that such conduct on his part shall be a breach of hisemployment agreements with Actors, entitling any such Actors to recover from theProducer, Equity consenting, a sum equal to two weeks' salary as liquidateddamages, no present basis of calculation existing. The Producer further agrees thatupon such breach, his name may be posted on the Defaulting Producers and/orManagers list at Equity, until such breach is settled or liquidated.In the event of a recovery of liquidated damages by or on behalf of the offendingActor, the same shall be paid into the Actors' Equity Foundation, Inc.(G) Changes and Alterations. The Actor has no right or power to waive any of theminimum conditions set forth in the employment contract or Equity Rules without thewritten consent of Equity. Unless any and all riders, changes, alterations, waivers,or substitutions made prior to, when, or after a contract of employment is made shallhave been consented to by Equity in writing, such riders, changes, alterations,waivers, or substitutions, or any part thereof, are void at the option of the Actor,Equity consenting. At the option of Equity, no such riders, changes, alterations,waivers or substitutions shall be admitted in evidence in any arbitration or by anytribunal for the disposition of any claim without the written consent of Equity.It shall be the duty of the Producer, not the Actor, to submit proposed changes toEquity for its written approval by a duly authorized representative. If Equity fails tonotify the Producer of its disapproval of said riders, changes, alterations, waivers orsubstitutions within 15 business days (excluding Saturday and Sunday) after receiptthereof by Equity, they shall be deemed approved.23