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Director & Choreographer Contracts

Payment & Schedule

Intellectual Property

Right of First Refusal

Electronic Rights

Billing, Comp Tickets

Share of Subsidiary Income

Pension & Health

Spokane, WA Music Director fired for using mentioning employer when posting on

swinger websites and when posting nude photos on Craig’s List

After fired, started blog campaign against Artistic Director

AD sued for defamation and for harming the business

Lost suit- said attack was personal not professional

Then she was fired for being a bully and difficult to work for- despite financially rescuing the company

Washington,DC

Ari Roth, Artistic Director of Theatre J

Fired for insubordination

Stemmed from producing the “Voices of a Changing Middle East” festival

Outrage from over 60 theatre companies made no difference

Today in Theatre

More problems organizationally than on a show

Big picture & tangential picture

May be perception more than action

Is it right that a director (or an artistic director) is never “off duty?”

Fight Directors

If an SDC member, can use those contracts

Otherwise negotiating independently with theatre

Equipment

Actor Safety

Training/Appointing Fight Captain

Designers

Intellectual Property

Deliverables & Dates

Transportation & Housing

Construction Guarantees

Supplies

Assistants

Liability

Responsibility when people get hurt

Who makes decisions about set/props

Employee conduct on and off the job

Expertise

TD Job Description (Academic)

Professional TD

Technicians & Construction

Determination of “expertise”

IATSE

Rigging Certifications

When do local building codes apply

What do other unions specify

What happens when the audience is “onstage”

Bishop v. Texas A&M University Guest director & fight choreographer/prop master

Used a “real” knife for a production of Dracula

Actor got stabbed

Sued school- Guest Director & Designer, Faculty Advisor

At issue- independent contractors or is the school responsible? Who is charged with safety?

Murder at the Met Orchestra member murdered by stagehand during intermission

Stemmed from musician slapping him for indecent comment in an

elevator

Should Met be liable? Happened during work but not as a result of work activities?

Musician’s husband filed Workers Comp claim- Met fought because not “work”

What is an employer’s full responsibility to an employee?

The Simpsons- AFM Got clearance/owned creative material to take from show to ride

Did not ask for permission for theme song recording

…no added compensation "shall be payable for the reuse of any portion of the music sound track of a motion picture in the following circumstances: (a) When used for promotional, trailer, news or review purposes…”