Marcia Strassman SAG Candidate Statement Whatever you call it: merger, affiliation, consolidation or unification, it boils down to the same thing: For actors to be strong, we must be united. As a member of the SAG Hollywood Division Board seven years ago, I also served on the committee overseeing the last attempt to unite SAG [...]

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Bill Smitrovich SAG Candidate Statement I’m grateful to my fellow actors who elected me to my second term on the Hollywood Board in 2009, where I was made National Chair of the Senior Performers Committee, leading to fulfilling work with the Motion Picture Television Fund, and fundraising for the SAG Foundation. As our industry transforms, so [...]

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Stacey Travis SAG Candidate Statement Over the past two years I’ve given middle-class actors a voice on  the Hollywood Board, and as the current National Co-Chair of the Low Budget Committee and member of the TV/Theatrical Negotiations, Wages and Working Conditions, Women’s, Honors and Tributes, and Global Rule One Committees. My focus? Keep jobs in [...]

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Woody Schultz SAG Candidate Statement Acting in web-series, video games, and films such as Avatar, I’ve seen how the technology used to create and distribute content is changing more rapidly than we ever imagined. That’s why I was excited to help create and chair the Performance Capture Committee, and to serve as Vice-chair of New [...]

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Mandy Steckelberg SAG Candidate Statement Serving as chair of the Voiceover Committee, and on the Hollywood Board this past year, I have learned some key things:  1) Technology is changing rapidly and our Guild needs to change rapidly with it;  and 2) Having two unions works against our membership, creating competition for jurisdiction, splitting up [...]

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Sarayu Rao SAG Candidate Statement I am a proud member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA, and I know the struggles the working-class actor faces first-hand.  Nothing has served our employers better than the division of our power. We cannot afford to expend any more time or energy infighting.  It’s become harder than ever to meet [...]

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Dileep Rao SAG Candidate Statement I seek SAG office to accomplish two things: The improvement of wages that have waned and driven many out of our profession, and what is needed to achieve that improvement -  a single union representing  all performers.  Actors need and deserve fair but tough representation  in negotiating with employers, but [...]

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Tara Radcliffe SAG Candidate Statement The concept of strength in numbers is a  fundamental one. Progressing from the 1981 “Phase 1” joint bargaining agreement between SAG and AFTRA to  “Phase 2” – merger -  would give actors just that: strength in numbers once again.  New technology has created a jurisdictional dilemma, and producers have taken great [...]

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Ron Perlman SAG Candidate Statement My show Sons of Anarchy is an AFTRA show, for one simple reason: the producers went to SAG, didn’t like what they heard, and went to the other guys. They laugh up their sleeves at a work force that allows itself to be divided, as benefits disappear. Arguing over what [...]

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Conrad Palmisano SAG Candidate Statement In my forty years as a SAG member, working on more than 200 films and television shows, I’ve  experienced first-hand the problems SAG members face, from securing a job to performing on the set to getting paid. I know how extremely important our residual and health care systems are to [...]

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Michael O’Neill SAG Candidate Statement This is a different business than the one most of us started in. I’m afraid that there’s little that can be done about “vertical integration”, the fact that our industry is controlled by five giant corporations, none of whom wants to pay actors more than scale plus 10% regardless of [...]

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Michael O’Keefe SAG Candidate Statement After over three decades as a professional performer, I decided last year it was time to give back, and was honored to be elected as a Hollywood Board member, and gratified to serve currently as Vice-Chair of the National Agents Relations and Wages and Working Conditions Committees, and member of [...]

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Jenny O’Hara SAG Candidate Statement My goal when I ran last year was to help turn this ship around. By working in solidarity with representatives from across the country, that’s starting to happen.  SAG is back to joint bargaining with AFTRA, and we’re hopefully on the road to one performers union; no more double dues, [...]

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Marisol Nichols SAG Candidate Statement After years of SAG work, I’m currently shooting an AFTRA show. It’s hard for me to understand how I’m doing the exact same thing – acting in front of a camera – except now I’m represented by a different union, with different pension and health plans, different rules. Whether I [...]

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D.W. Moffett SAG Candidate Statement Fellow performers! Since 1979 I have been a card-carrying member of SAG, and this past year I have proudly represented you on SAG’s Hollywood Board, and as a member of SAG Indie and Legislative Committees. But the fact is that actors have one profession and we need ONE union to [...]

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Gilles Marini SAG Candidate Statement As a relative newcomer to SAG, I am concerned by developments both within the union and the industry since I joined. With the advent of new technologies in filming, the internet and the public’s shifting taste in entertainment, SAG on its own no longer has the leverage it once held. [...]

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Donal Logue SAG Candidate Statement The past few years have been tumultuous for our beloved union. Like most, I have deep friendships and great respect for SAG members on both sides of what became a bitterly divided impasse.  After weighing the arguments (and in light of the massive and ever-growing percentage of our work which [...]

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Dawnn Lewis SAG Candidate Statement I’m a member of SAG, AFTRA & Equity, with more than thirty professional years earning a living in theatre, film, television, music & animation.  I’m  proud to be a SAG Hollywood Board member, and Chair of the SAG Singers Committee, which has been actively improving contracts and lines of communication within [...]

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Christine Lakin SAG Candidate Statement Starting out as a professional actor at the age of 8, I have watched the business change dramatically.  The biggest transformation is now upon us, in the form of New Media, for production and distribution.  Doing this work has made clear to me just how much we need to change as well, to [...]

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Clyde Kusatsu SAG Candidate Statement I am a working actor and member of SAG for 37 years. To quote Pogo The Possum:” We have met the enemy and it is us!” When I first ran for the board two years ago, I knew we had to choose a new path, and I’m proud to say that we [...]

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Sam Jaeger SAG Candidate Statement The question in this election is not what is best for the union, but for the people it represents. The Screen Actors Guild was created to protect actors from exploitation.  We now find ourselves at a similar threshold. To neglect a merger with AFTRA is to row only one side [...]

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Jon Huertas SAG Candidate Statement When I received my SAG Card 16 years ago, it was one of the proudest moments of my life.  Unfortunately I wasn’t so proud during the 2008-2009 contract negotiations. The battling with AFTRA and division within SAG was frustrating and quite embarrassing to say the least.  I never want to [...]

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Clark Gregg SAG Candidate Statement During this past year on the Hollywood Board, it’s become clear to me that the industry is evolving in a way that makes old models of how to protect performers obsolete. In order to survive in that “new Hollywood,” performers will have to move easily between work in television, film, [...]

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Jason George SAG Candidate Statement One union. It would maximize power for all performers, consolidate contributions to one health plan, save dues money. Being a current member of SAG’s Hollywood Board and AFTRA’s National and LA Boards puts me in a prime position to help create one union.  Also a current member of SAG’s Ethnic Employment [...]

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Jeff Garlin SAG Candidate Statement I started doing comedy when I was 20 years old, and my career has involved working live, in films, on tape, on radio and in sound recordings, in front of and behind the camera. As a proud member of all three actors unions, watching SAG and AFTRA battle – to [...]

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Patrick Fabian SAG Candidate Statement I was proud to serve on the Hollywood Board and on the Open Board, Health & Safety, Agent Relations, Voiceover & Probable Cause Committees this past year. I’d like to do it again.  I’m a middle class actor, working all three of my union cards this year in everything from [...]

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Bertila Damas SAG Candidate Statement As a grateful SAG member of 24 years, I watched  the  last  few  years with frustration as SAG was swept away in  a  controversy  of  gossip and dissent. I chose to become passionately involved  and informed,  participating  in everything I could, educating  myself on the Guild’s situation and the needs [...]

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Ellen Crawford SAG Candidate Statement Serving on the SAG Hollywood Division Board this year has been an honor. I’m also a current member of the Guild Government Review, Film Society, SAG Indie and  Senior Performers Committees, and am the chair of Hollywood MOVE.  A lifelong middle-class actor, I know the challenges of weaving together a [...]

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Mimi Cozzens SAG Candidate Statement As a child actor I learned early to appreciate the benefits of union protection. I joined SAG in1950 as a Junior Member, Equity in 1960 and AFTRA in 1965. I’m fully vested in all three unions, and want every professional performer to have the same chance. Unifying AFTRA & SAG would [...]

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Assaf Cohen SAG Candidate Statement Our employers and agents have been savvy, merging and consolidating to concentrate their power.  To thrive, actors must adapt and do the same.  As long as our unions are forced to compete, performers lose.   It’s ridiculous – and it hurts actors. True strength comes through strategic long-term thinking, so let’s [...]

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William Charlton SAG Candidate Statement Supporting my family as an actor for over 20 years, I, like others, have felt the effect of the evolving media landscape on both my work and my bank account. My concerns spurred my involvement with SAG, where I currently serve on the Communications, Commercial Performers, and Hollywood TV/Theatrical Wages [...]

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Gabrielle Carteris SAG Candidate Statement After two decades making my living in television, commercials, and films, I’m honored to be serving on SAG’s Hollywood Board for the last two years. I’m also the Hollywood Chair of the Commercial Performers Committee, and a current member of the SAG/AFTRA Relations Task Force and Guild Government Review, Probable Cause and [...]

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L. Scott Caldwell SAG Candidate Statement A thirty-year vested  AEA/AFTRA AND SAG member still working all contracts, from Broadway to TV’s “Lost”. I am proudly serving my second term on the Hollywood Board , and as National Chair of the Ethnic Employment Opportunities and Women’s Committees, and an active member of the Legislative, Seniors, Honors [...]

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Michelle Allsopp SAG Candidate Statement It’s been a year since you elected me to represent you on the Hollywood Board and I am once again asking for your vote. As I have during the last year, I will continue to be a strong and uncompromising voice for actors who, like me, are working hard to [...]

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Ned Vaughn SAG Candidate Statement Like most actors, my jobs are split between SAG and AFTRA more than ever before. This hurts us all and we have to stop it. Employers will keep dividing our work unless we take control – by forming a single union. One union means no choice for employers. One union [...]

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