Dear Actors Fund Friends,

As one month ends and another begins, we hope you have some warmth, light and comfort in your summer days.

We are continuing our work to assist those in our performing arts and entertainment community who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are incredibly proud to have distributed more than $13 million to more than 11,000 professionals in our industry since March 18. However, as theaters, TV sets and film productions remain shut down, we know even more people will need help paying for essential goods like medications and food

Many will also struggle with losing health insurance in the coming months, so we are launching a new initiative to help people get and stay insured: the Every Artist Insured campaign. With a lead gift of $1,000,000 in support from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, we will be able to hire and train additional health insurance counselors and increase our free workshops, like Getting and Keeping Affordable Health Insurance During COVID-19.

We couldn’t do this crucial work without your dedication. We thank you for every donation you’ve made; every social media post in support of our shows, fundraisers, programs and services; every conversation you’ve had telling friends in our community that if they need help, they should reach out to The Actors Fund. It makes all the difference in the support we’re able to give those who need us the most.

Artists in Residence
On Sale Now

Broadway Records

Broadway Records and producer Andrew Gerle present the new album “Artists in Residence” to benefit The Actors Fund and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. It features 14 new songs inspired by our temporarily constrained lives, all recorded in the artists’ homes.

Performers include Tony Award winners Victoria Clark, Santino Fontana, Rachel Bay Jones and Patina Miller, Drama Desk winners Jay Armstrong Johnson and Laura Osnes, plus Victoria Huston-Elem and Tony nominees Amber Gray, Christiane Noll, Lauren Ward and Broadway and opera star Harolyn Blackwell.

The album includes new works by renowned film and Broadway favorites Alan Menken, David Zippel, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, as well as multiple award-winning theater writers Todd Almond, Sean Barry and Jenny Giering, Carmel Dean, Andrew Gerle, Adam Gwon, Peter Mills, Ryan Scott Oliver, Eric Price and Will Reynolds, Jonathan Tunick, Ben Wexler, Jake Wildhorn, and David and Joseph Zellnik.

Listen to exclusive tracks from Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Amber Gray!

And So We Come Forth
Wednesday, July 1, 7:30 pm ET

TheAppleFamilyPlays.com
The Apple Family YouTube Channel

Apple Family Productions announces the world premiere of AND SO WE COME FORTH: The Apple Family: A Dinner on Zoom, the latest play in the Rhinebeck Panorama, written and directed by Tony Award winner Richard Nelson. The play, written by Nelson from his home in Rhinebeck, New York, will be available to watch for free for eight weeks.

This latest Apple Family Play will support The Actors Fund, and features Stephen Kunken, Sally Murphy, Maryann Plunkett, Laila Robins and Jay O. Sanders.

Stars in the House
Monday-Saturday, 8 pm ET
Saturday & Sunday, 2 pm ET

StarsInTheHouse.com

The daily live-streamed series created by Playbill correspondent and SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and producer James Wesley supports The Actors Fund's Emergency Financial Assistance program helping those in need in the performing arts due to COVID-19.

Visit starsinthehouse.com for a new summer schedule of live episodes that feature performances and behind-the-scenes stories from stars of stage and screen.

You can also catch up—or rewatch!—all previous Stars in the House episodes anytime you want!

Broadway Jackbox
Tuesdays & Fridays, 6 pm ET

Broadway Jackbox Twitch Channel

From the creative minds of Jimmy Award Winner Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) and actor and Tony Award-winning producer Alex Boniello (Spring Awakening, Dear Evan Hansen) comes Broadway Jackbox. Watch Andrew and Alex play fun and silly Jackbox games with their Broadway friends. You can watch it all on Tuesdays and Fridays at 6 pm ET, raising money for The Actors Fund through donations from viewers.

To date, they have raised over $45,000! Thank you, Alex and Andrew; we’re so grateful!

Auction of 1000 Stars



MasquerAID
Costumer Professionals For Wage Equity have partnered with The Actors Fund to create these one-of-a-kind masks to help raise funds for our COVID-19 Emergency Financial Assistance program. Some masks are made from actual medical masks, while others are full facial masks. Each design is different from the next.

More Online Events:
Viral Vignettes: Every Wednesday at 3 pm ET
“What I Got” Music Video from Because of Winn Dixie: Watch now
“One World” Music Video: Watch now