Representing Actors/Defining Acting: the Role of Arbitration in the Actors’ Equity Association

On November 20, 2020, Ann Folino White, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Directing at Michigan State University, will present her research about the Actor’s Equity Association as part of the Coffee and Concepts Series. Her talk is titled “Representing Actors/Defining Acting: the Role of Arbitration in the Actors’ Equity Association”

Dr. Ann Folino White is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Directing in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University. Dr. Folino White is editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas. Her scholarship on early-twentieth century U.S. theatre, protest, and political performance has appeared in TDR, TPQ, Theatre Survey, and Performance Research. She is contributing co-editor of Food & Theatre on the World Stage (Routledge, 2015). Her book Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America (Indiana University Press, 2015) received the CLR James Book Award from the Working Class Studies Association. In 2017, Dr. Folino White was named a Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Michigan Association of State Universities.