As we head into the holiday season, calendars seem to fill up faster, days often feel shorter, and one event immediately follows the next. So it’s extra important to take care of yourself and your families, friends and colleagues—and take some time to pause and enjoy it all!

The Actors Fund is thrilled to partner with the John Gore Organization to bring flu shots to national touring companies across the country, via The Actors Fund Flu Shot Program for Touring Companies. We’re committed to caring for our performing arts family when they’re at home and on the road, and we’re honored that the John Gore Foundation has joined us in this endeavor.

We also had an invigorating fall season in Chicago, with housing, financial wellness and health workshops free to everyone in the industry. 

Finally, what better way to celebrate the holiday season than with music and a show? Join us on December 16 for Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, starring Gavin Lee, Sierra Boggess and many more.

We look forward to sharing many moments of joy, large and small, with you throughout the coming weeks. Thank you as always for being a part of our community!

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Celebrate With Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol!

Join The Actors Fund for a special concert presentation of the holiday classic Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol! This one-night-only event will take place on Monday, December 16 at 7:30 pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (524 W. 59th St.). Proceeds from the evening will benefit the programs and services of The Actors Fund.

The evening will be directed by Carl Andress with choreography by Nathan Peck, based on original choreography by Marcos Santana. Grammy Award® and Emmy Award®–winner John McDaniel has written new orchestrations for the score, and will serve as the evening’s music director. The concert will star Gavin Lee, Sierra Boggess, Jeff Hiller, Don Darryl Rivera, Matthew Scott, Claybourne Elder, Kyle Selig, Klea Blackhurst, Jennifer Cody, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Frederic Odgaard and others to be announced.

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National tour of Rent in Boston, MA.

Flu Shot Program for Touring Companies

The Actors Fund is proud to team up with the John Gore Organization on the launch of The Actors Fund Flu Shot Program for Touring Companies.

The program provides flu shots to the cast, crew and traveling family members of Actors’ Equity national touring companies, as well as theatrical venue staff. Flu shots are made available at theater venues by trained pharmacists from CVS Pharmacy. If patients are insured, the flu shots are billed to the insurer; for anyone uninsured, the John Gore Organization covers the cost.

Since September, the program has administered nearly 400 flu shots to the tours of Les Misérables in Tulsa, OK; Hamilton-Angelica Tour in Philadelphia, PA; Come From Away in Cincinnati, OH; Miss Saigon in Costa Mesa, CA; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical in Portland, ME; Wicked in New Orleans, LA; Hello, Dolly! in St. Louis, MO; Aladdin in Durham, NC; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in San Francisco, CA; Rent in Boston, MA and more.

Read more about The Actors Fund Flu Shot Program for Touring Companies. 

Howard Brown Health staff Kristin Klegovitz Baker, COO; Serette King, Assoc. Director of Community Engagement; Jess Jones, Kaufherr Center Director; Vincent Musolino, Health Benefits Specialist at The Actors Fund; and Diane Pascal, Senior Vice President of External Relations.
 
What’s New in Chicago

The Actors Fund is thrilled to be growing our workshops and partnerships in Chicago!

Working closely with local partners at The University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative and SAG-AFTRA, The Fund presented Affordable Housing workshops at the Kaufherr Resource Center and the new Green Line Performing Arts Center in Washington Park.

The Fund also joined Howard Brown Health, SAG_AFTRA Chicago Local and CEILC for the Chicago Entertainment Community Health Fair. Attendees (union and non-union) had access to a range of free health services including flu shots; blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes screenings; rapid HIV screenings and counseling; PReP and PEP info and counseling; dental screenings; physical therapy consultations and more.

We also began financial wellness workshops to cover a variety of monetary concerns and questions.

To learn more about offerings in the Central Region, visit actorsfund.org/Workshops.