Stage Managers. Stage Managers are covered by all the Sections in this Agreement except where specifically stated otherwise. (A) There shall be no less than one Stage Manager and one Assistant Stage Manager employed. A Stage Manager must be in attendance at all rehearsals. (See Section 43(A).) (B) Except as provided in paragraph (C) below, no Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager shall do work of any nature whatsoever for a Producer without a signed Individual Artist Agreement (after security has been properly posted with AGMA) and the Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager has received instructions from the Producer as to the work. (C) The Stage Manager shall be engaged at least two weeks before the beginning of rehearsals and shall receive at least two weeks’ contractual salary for those pre rehearsal weeks. (See Section 47(G)). (1) Upon the signing of an Individual Artist Agreement or a letter of intent between the Stage Manager and the Producer, filed with AGMA, signifying Producer's intent to employ the Stage Manager, the Stage Manager shall be obligated to perform all pre-production work. The Producer may require, as part of the aforementioned pre-production work, the Stage Manager's attendance at Principal Interviews/Auditions, AGMA Principal and Ensemble auditions and open auditions, prior to such two-week contractual pre-production period for 12 separate calendar days. All other days of interviews and/or auditions that a Stage Manager attends, as required by (P) below, shall be paid for at one-sixth of contractual salary. (2) In the event the Producer fails to offer employment to the Stage Manager for that production, the Producer shall be obligated to pay the Stage Manager two weeks' contractual salary. If the Stage Manager does not accept employment in the production Stage Manager shall be compensated at the rate of one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked. (See (P)below.) (D) Replacement Stage Managers who are not promoted from the production shall be hired at least one week prior to the date on which they are to take over the production. Replacement Stage Managers (not Assistants from the same show) taking over the duties of Stage Manager during vacation shall be paid on a daily basis when required by the Producer to familiarize themselves with the requirements of the production before assuming duties. (E) Short-term Stage Manager. Stage Managers may be employed on a daily and per- performance basis as follows: (1) A Stage Manager must be signed to an Individual Artist Agreement for all work performed (including any training) as required by Section 13, CONTRACT; (2) Short-term Stage Managers shall be compensated at no less than the rate applicable to the Stage Manager’s category as follows: (a) One-sixth of minimum salary per day prior to the production’s first paid public performance; and/or, (b) One-eighth of minimum salary per performance after the production’s first paid public performance. (3) After a Short-term Stage Manager has worked for four days or five performances, whichever occurs first, a Health contribution will be made on that Stage Manager’s behalf. Thereafter, a Health contribution will be required after every six days or eight performances worked. Said Health contributions will be due whether or not the performances or days worked are consecutive; (4) The Producer will contribute to the AGMA Retirement and Health Funds 8% of all monies (exclusive of Per Diem) paid to a Short-term Stage Manager; (5) The employment of Short-term Stage Managers is not intended to replace additional Assistant Stage Managers as may be employed pursuant to (G)(3) below; and, (6) For “advance work” on tour and/or if any Stage Manager is absent for one week or more, and the production hires a replacement Stage Manager, an Individual Artists Agreement of at least one week will be used. (F) No Producer or Manager may be employed as a Stage Manager in the production where the impact of such employment reduces the complement of the Stage Managers herein required. No relative of a Producer or Manager may be employed as a Stage Manager in the production where the impact of such employment reduces the complement of the Stage Managers herein required unless said relative is qualified. (G) Stage Managers and First Assistant Stage Managers shall not be permitted to perform, except in emergency, nor shall they be permitted to understudy provided that in special circumstances the First Assistant Stage Manager in a dramatic play may be permitted to understudy with the consent of AGMA which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. (1) Second Assistant Stage Manager(s) may be required to travel with the company. Should there be more than one official travel option for the Company, the Company Manager shall travel with the Company on the first option, and the Second Assistant Stage Manager may travel with the Company on a different option. (2) Required Second Assistant Stage Managers shall not be permitted to perform in a regularly assigned onstage role, but shall be permitted to be a Dance Captain, understudy or partial swing. Where there are technologically complex productions, if the required Second Assistant Stage Manager is assigned to such responsibilities, AGMA reserves the right to object. (3) In the case of technologically complex or multi-set productions, AGMA may request that additional non-acting/understudying Assistant Stage Managers be employed. Producer shall have the sole right to determine whether any such Assistant Stage Managers are required and AGMA agrees that the Producer's determination shall be final. (4) In musical productions, if the Second Assistant Stage Manager has not been assigned duties under (2) above, the Second Assistant Stage Manager(s) may assist in travel and housing arrangements by developing information regarding venues, travel and accommodations for the company and crew for an additional payment of not less than $24.75 per week. It is understood that these duties cannot invade the required rest periods under this contact without penalty. In all cases in which the Second Assistant Stage Manager is assigned such duties, their Stage Management duties take precedence, and in the case of a dispute, the Stage Manager shall determine priority. (5) The First Assistant Stage Manager shall be hired not later than one week prior to rehearsals and paid one week's contractual salary, and the Second Assistant Stage Manager on a musical shall be hired not later than one day prior to rehearsals and shall be paid one-sixth of weekly contractual salary for each day prior to the start of rehearsals, except where the Producer certifies to AGMA that Producer does not require the First Assistant Stage Manager, or Second Assistant Stage Manager as appropriate, to perform any pre-production work. In no event shall the First or Second Assistant Stage Manager be hired later than the first day of rehearsal. Should the Second Assistant Stage Manager be hired for four or more days prior to the start of rehearsal, a Health contribution shall be made on that Assistant Stage Manager’s behalf. (6) In the event any Assistant Stage Manager is required to perform preproduction work prior to the week before the beginning of rehearsals, a letter of intent shall be signed and the same procedure and arrangement that exists for the Stage Manager shall be applicable to any Assistant Stage Manager. (See (P) below.) (H) If any Assistant Stage Manager performs pre-production work prior to rehearsals, the Assistant shall be paid one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked. (I) All other Assistant Stage Managers must be hired not later than the first day of rehearsal in which substantially the full complement of the Ensemble commences rehearsal, but in no event later than the end of the first week of rehearsal. (J) There will be a 10-hour rest period between the end of work on one day and the beginning of work on the following day, which can be reduced to eight hours prior to load-ins and travel days. (K) In the event that for any performance the Stage Manager is not present at the theatre in their capacity as Stage Manager and no replacement Stage Manager is hired, the First Assistant Stage Manager shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for Stage Manager and the Second Assistant Stage Manager, if required in (A) above, shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for First Assistant Stage Manager for such performance. If for any performance the First Assistant Stage Manager is not present at the theatre in their capacity as First Assistant Stage Manager and no replacement Assistant Stage Manager is hired, the Second Assistant Stage Manager, if required by (A) above, shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for First Assistant Stage Manager for that performance. This compensation shall commence with the first day of said absence. (L) Transportation of the Stage Manager's customary work box shall be paid for by the Producer. (M) Tech Week Compensation. Stage Manager(s) will be paid an additional one- sixth of contractual salary in the week immediately prior to the first paid public performance. (N) Should a Stage Manager and/or Assistant Stage Manager, while providing services hereunder, be called upon to perform services for any other company of the play in which the Producer bears a financial interest, Stage Manager shall be paid not less than one week's contractual salary and for days in excess of one week, one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked. (O) If the Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager prepares a script for publication or for use in any other version of the production, the Stage Manager or Assistant shall be paid one week's contractual salary for each version. No payment shall be due any Stage Manager for simply duplicating/copying any script. (P) A Stage Manager must be present at all auditions and/or interviews conducted in rehearsal halls, theatres, or studios. Said Stage Manager shall be paid at a daily rate of not less than one-sixth of such Stage Manager's minimum salary for that production. Duplicate payment need not be made if the audition(s) and/or interview(s) fall within or after the one- or two-week pre-production period as provided for above. The Producer shall notify AGMA whenever auditions or interviews are held at which the Stage Manager is present. (Q) When the theatre is used for purposes other than the AGMA Production and a Stage Manager is requested to be in the theatre to protect or restore the production or to generally oversee the interests of the Production, said Stage Manager(s) shall be compensated at the rehearsal overtime rates in Section 43(D)(3) for a minimum call of four hours. However, if such services are rendered on the Stage Manager's day off, Stage Manager shall be compensated for said services at the rate of two-sixths weekly contractual salary in addition to said Stage Manager's usual weekly contractual salary. (R) If a Stage Manager is called to manage an audition or to rehearse a replacement on the day following Stage Manager's own day off, said Stage Manager shall be compensated at the applicable rehearsal overtime rate for a minimum of four hours. (S) The Stage Manager shall be consulted in the selection of the Assistant Stage Managers but the Producer shall retain full and final authority in their sole discretion to make all employment decisions. (T) When necessary, the Stage Managers may be required to travel on a crew bus. Such bus shall have a separate bunk for each Stage Manager and shall be otherwise equipped in accordance with Section 53(C)(1). Travel time on such bus can be considered as part of the rest period. In no case shall the driver of such vehicle be the Stage Manager or an Assistant Stage Manager. (U) In the event of emergency only (such as the breakdown of the crew bus), Stage Managers may be conveyed by safe, alternate means from one stop to the next. Such alternate means of transportation may not be used for more than two moves in any period of 14 days without penalty; the third and each subsequent use for a similar emergency shall be compensated at the rate of $150 per move in addition to any overtime that may be required. The Stage Managers shall be covered by the insurance provisions of Section 53(C)(8) if such alternate means of transportation is utilized. (V) When the schedule does not provide, within a calendar week, a day off for any member of the Stage Managerial staff for any reason such as, but not limited to, travel (except as permitted for the entire company), take-out or take-in of a production, performance, rehearsal, audition and/or interview, said Stage Manager shall either (a) be compensated at not less than an additional one-sixth of contractual salary for each such day off not available, or (b) be entitled to a compensatory day off. Company and General Management shall interface with Stage Management to determine whether there is an opportunity to take a compensatory day. If a compensatory day cannot be taken within the 32(or 48, when applicable) performance block in which it is earned, it shall be paid out at one-sixth of contractual salary. It is understood that a day on which no company member is called will be considered a Company day off and may not be assigned as a compensatory day. (W) On engagements of one week or longer, any Stage Manager who is required to report for a performance call more than two hours prior to curtain (or one and one-half hours before half hour) will receive all applicable overtime and meal penalties. (X) After the later of either the end of the fourth week following the official press opening on tour, or the official press opening night in the second city of a tour, rehearsal hours for Stage Managers shall be limited to twelve (12) hours per week of actual rehearsal time, excluding rehearsals conducted during performance calls, as well as rehearsal hours in which Artists are paid. Actual rehearsal hours worked in excess of twelve (12), other than those excluded as per the preceding sentence, shall be paid at the contractual overtime rate. Stage Managers earning more than $250 above minimum scale shall not be so limited. (Y) During each week in which there is a load-in, all Stage Managers working the load-in shall receive a payment of not less than $75 for the first load-in of each week and $75 for the second load-in in any week. Such payment may be incorporated into overscale arrangements and will not be required more than twice per week.
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Sources: Basic Agreement
Stage Managers. Stage Managers are covered by all the Sections Rules in this Agreement except where specifically stated otherwise.
(A) There shall be no less than one Stage Manager and one Assistant Stage Manager employedemployed in a dramatic production and no less than one Stage Manager and two Assistant Stage Managers employed in a musical production. A Stage Manager must be in attendance at all rehearsals. (See Section 43(ARule 47(C).) A musical production with an on-stage cast of 22 or more and multiple moving production elements, (excluding hand props), shall employ a Temporary Assistant Stage Manager if: (i) there has been no paid public performance of that production in the twelve months preceding first rehearsal, or (ii) there were paid public performances in the twelve months preceding first rehearsal and the production has, during that period, undergone overall changes substantial enough to have become a new production, e.g., a new creative team, or significant changes in scenic design. Temporary Stage Managers shall be employed from no later than the day before the first day of rehearsal through Official Opening. Temporary Stage Managers shall be compensated at the Second ASM Musical rate, with all applicable benefits.
(B) Except as provided in paragraph (C) below, no Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager shall do work of any nature whatsoever for a Producer without a signed Individual Artist Agreement contract (after security has been properly posted with AGMAEquity) and the Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager has received instructions from the Producer as to the work.
(C) The Stage Manager shall be engaged at least two weeks before the beginning of rehearsals and shall receive at least two weeks’ ' contractual salary for those pre rehearsal weeks. (See Section 47(G))before rehearsals commence.
(1) Upon the signing of an Individual Artist Agreement a contract or a letter of intent between the Stage Manager and the Producer, filed with AGMAEquity, signifying Producer's intent to employ the Stage Manager, the Stage Manager shall be obligated to perform all pre-production work. The Producer may require, as part of the aforementioned pre-production work, the Stage Manager's attendance at Principal Interviews/Auditions, AGMA Equity Principal and Ensemble Chorus auditions and open auditions, prior to such two-week contractual pre-production period for 12 separate calendar days. All other days of interviews and/or auditions that a Stage Manager attends, as required by (PQ) below, shall be paid for at one-sixth of contractual salary.
(2) In the event the Producer fails to offer employment to the Stage Manager for that production, the Producer shall be obligated to pay the Stage Manager two weeks' contractual salary. If the Stage Manager does not accept employment in the production production, Stage Manager shall be compensated at the rate of one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked. (See (P)belowQ) below.)
(D) Replacement Stage Managers who are not promoted from the production shall be hired at least one week prior to the date on which they are to take over the production. Replacement Stage Managers (not Assistants from the same show) taking over the duties of Stage Manager during vacation shall be paid on a daily basis when required by the Producer to familiarize themselves with the requirements of the production before assuming duties.
(E) Short-term Stage Manager. Stage Managers may be employed on a daily and per- performance basis as follows:
(1) A Stage Manager must be signed to an Individual Artist Agreement for all work performed (including any training) as required by Section 13, CONTRACT;
(2) Short-term Stage Managers shall be compensated at no less than the rate applicable to the Stage Manager’s category as follows:
(a) One-sixth of minimum salary per day prior to the production’s first paid public performance; and/or,
(b) One-eighth of minimum salary per performance after the production’s first paid public performance.
(3) After a Short-term Stage Manager has worked for four days or five performances, whichever occurs first, a Health contribution will be made on that Stage Manager’s behalf. Thereafter, a Health contribution will be required after every six days or eight performances worked. Said Health contributions will be due whether or not the performances or days worked are consecutive;
(4) The Producer will contribute to the AGMA Retirement and Health Funds 8% of all monies (exclusive of Per Diem) paid to a Short-term Stage Manager;
(5) The employment of Short-term Stage Managers is not intended to replace additional Assistant Stage Managers as may be employed pursuant to (G)(3) below; and,
(6) For “advance work” on tour and/or if any Stage Manager is absent for one week or more, and the production hires a replacement Stage Manager, an Individual Artists Agreement of at least one week will be used.
(F) No Producer or Manager may be employed as a Stage Manager in the production where the impact of such employment reduces the complement of the Stage Managers herein required. No relative of a Producer or Manager may be employed as a Stage Manager in the production where the impact of such employment reduces the complement of the Stage Managers herein required unless said relative is qualified.
(G) Stage Managers and First Assistant Stage Managers shall not be permitted to perform, except in emergency, nor shall they be permitted to understudy provided that in special circumstances the First Assistant Stage Manager in a dramatic play may be permitted to understudy with the consent of AGMA which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
(1) Second Assistant Stage Manager(s) may be required to travel with the company. Should there be more than one official travel option for the Company, the Company Manager shall travel with the Company on the first option, and the Second Assistant Stage Manager may travel with the Company on a different option.
(2) Required Second Assistant Stage Managers shall not be permitted to perform in a regularly assigned onstage role, but shall be permitted to be a Dance Captain, understudy or partial swing. Where there are technologically complex productions, if the required Second Assistant Stage Manager is assigned to such responsibilities, AGMA reserves the right to object.
(3) In the case of technologically complex or multi-set productions, AGMA may request that additional non-acting/understudying Assistant Stage Managers be employed. Producer shall have the sole right to determine whether any such Assistant Stage Managers are required and AGMA agrees that the Producer's determination shall be final.
(4) In musical productions, if the Second Assistant Stage Manager has not been assigned duties under (2) above, the Second Assistant Stage Manager(s) may assist in travel and housing arrangements by developing information regarding venues, travel and accommodations for the company and crew for an additional payment of not less than $24.75 per week. It is understood that these duties cannot invade the required rest periods under this contact without penalty. In all cases in which the Second Assistant Stage Manager is assigned such duties, their Stage Management duties take precedence, and in the case of a dispute, the Stage Manager shall determine priority.
(5) The First Assistant Stage Manager shall be hired not later than one week prior to rehearsals and paid one week's contractual salary, and the Second Assistant Stage Manager on a musical shall be hired not later than one day prior to rehearsals and shall be paid one-sixth of weekly contractual salary for each day prior to the start of rehearsals, except where the Producer certifies to AGMA that Producer does not require the First Assistant Stage Manager, or Second Assistant Stage Manager as appropriate, to perform any pre-production work. In no event shall the First or Second Assistant Stage Manager be hired later than the first day of rehearsal. Should the Second Assistant Stage Manager be hired for four or more days prior to the start of rehearsal, a Health contribution shall be made on that Assistant Stage Manager’s behalf.
(6) In the event any Assistant Stage Manager is required to perform preproduction work prior to the week before the beginning of rehearsals, a letter of intent shall be signed and the same procedure and arrangement that exists for the Stage Manager shall be applicable to any Assistant Stage Manager. (See (P) below.)
(H) If any Assistant Stage Manager performs pre-production work prior to rehearsals, the Assistant shall be paid one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked.
(I) All other Assistant Stage Managers must be hired not later than the first day of rehearsal in which substantially the full complement of the Ensemble commences rehearsal, but in no event later than the end of the first week of rehearsal.
(J) There will be a 10-hour rest period between the end of work on one day and the beginning of work on the following day, which can be reduced to eight hours prior to load-ins and travel days.
(K) In the event that for any performance the Stage Manager is not present at the theatre in their capacity as Stage Manager and no replacement Stage Manager is hired, the First Assistant Stage Manager shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for Stage Manager and the Second Assistant Stage Manager, if required in (A) above, shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for First Assistant Stage Manager for such performance. If for any performance the First Assistant Stage Manager is not present at the theatre in their capacity as First Assistant Stage Manager and no replacement Assistant Stage Manager is hired, the Second Assistant Stage Manager, if required by (A) above, shall receive not less than the applicable minimum salary for First Assistant Stage Manager for that performance. This compensation shall commence with the first day of said absence.
(L) Transportation of the Stage Manager's customary work box shall be paid for by the Producer.
(M) Tech Week Compensation. Stage Manager(s) will be paid an additional one- sixth of contractual salary in the week immediately prior to the first paid public performance.
(N) Should a Stage Manager and/or Assistant Stage Manager, while providing services hereunder, be called upon to perform services for any other company of the play in which the Producer bears a financial interest, Stage Manager shall be paid not less than one week's contractual salary and for days in excess of one week, one-sixth of contractual salary for each day worked.
(O) If the Stage Manager or Assistant Stage Manager prepares a script for publication or for use in any other version of the production, the Stage Manager or Assistant shall be paid one week's contractual salary for each version. No payment shall be due any Stage Manager for simply duplicating/copying any script.
(P) A Stage Manager must be present at all auditions and/or interviews conducted in rehearsal halls, theatres, or studios. Said Stage Manager shall be paid at a daily rate of not less than one-sixth of such Stage Manager's minimum salary for that production. Duplicate payment need not be made if the audition(s) and/or interview(s) fall within or after the one- or two-week pre-production period as provided for above. The Producer shall notify AGMA whenever auditions or interviews are held at which the Stage Manager is present.
(Q) When the theatre is used for purposes other than the AGMA Production and a Stage Manager is requested to be in the theatre to protect or restore the production or to generally oversee the interests of the Production, said Stage Manager(s) shall be compensated at the rehearsal overtime rates in Section 43(D)(3) for a minimum call of four hours. However, if such services are rendered on the Stage Manager's day off, Stage Manager shall be compensated for said services at the rate of two-sixths weekly contractual salary in addition to said Stage Manager's usual weekly contractual salary.
(R) If a Stage Manager is called to manage an audition or to rehearse a replacement on the day following Stage Manager's own day off, said Stage Manager shall be compensated at the applicable rehearsal overtime rate for a minimum of four hours.
(S) The Stage Manager shall be consulted in the selection of the Assistant Stage Managers but the Producer shall retain full and final authority in their sole discretion to make all employment decisions.
(T) When necessary, the Stage Managers may be required to travel on a crew bus. Such bus shall have a separate bunk for each Stage Manager and shall be otherwise equipped in accordance with Section 53(C)(1). Travel time on such bus can be considered as part of the rest period. In no case shall the driver of such vehicle be the Stage Manager or an Assistant Stage Manager.
(U) In the event of emergency only (such as the breakdown of the crew bus), Stage Managers may be conveyed by safe, alternate means from one stop to the next. Such alternate means of transportation may not be used for more than two moves in any period of 14 days without penalty; the third and each subsequent use for a similar emergency shall be compensated at the rate of $150 per move in addition to any overtime that may be required. The Stage Managers shall be covered by the insurance provisions of Section 53(C)(8) if such alternate means of transportation is utilized.
(V) When the schedule does not provide, within a calendar week, a day off for any member of the Stage Managerial staff for any reason such as, but not limited to, travel (except as permitted for the entire company), take-out or take-in of a production, performance, rehearsal, audition and/or interview, said Stage Manager shall either (a) be compensated at not less than an additional one-sixth of contractual salary for each such day off not available, or (b) be entitled to a compensatory day off. Company and General Management shall interface with Stage Management to determine whether there is an opportunity to take a compensatory day. If a compensatory day cannot be taken within the 32(or 48, when applicable) performance block in which it is earned, it shall be paid out at one-sixth of contractual salary. It is understood that a day on which no company member is called will be considered a Company day off and may not be assigned as a compensatory day.
(W) On engagements of one week or longer, any Stage Manager who is required to report for a performance call more than two hours prior to curtain (or one and one-half hours before half hour) will receive all applicable overtime and meal penalties.
(X) After the later of either the end of the fourth week following the official press opening on tour, or the official press opening night in the second city of a tour, rehearsal hours for Stage Managers shall be limited to twelve (12) hours per week of actual rehearsal time, excluding rehearsals conducted during performance calls, as well as rehearsal hours in which Artists are paid. Actual rehearsal hours worked in excess of twelve (12), other than those excluded as per the preceding sentence, shall be paid at the contractual overtime rate. Stage Managers earning more than $250 above minimum scale shall not be so limited.
(Y) During each week in which there is a load-in, all Stage Managers working the load-in shall receive a payment of not less than $75 for the first load-in of each week and $75 for the second load-in in any week. Such payment may be incorporated into overscale arrangements and will not be required more than twice per week.
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Sources: Equity/League Production Contract