The entertainment guilds’ membership rules created a closed hiring loop
Evidence
I discovered you had to have worked on a union show before you could join any of the film or television unions, but you had be a member of one or more unions before any agent worth having would see you or any film production company could legally hire you. I found a way to get around the catch-22 by auditioning to be a contestant on The $1.98 Beauty Show. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 18
Categorization
- QUESTION: This union catch-22 sounds like a strong concrete example of credentialing lock-in worth verifying against a history of SAG/AFTRA membership rules.
- XREF: connects to: Winning a parody beauty crown produced no career advancement; Entertainment guild membership and agent access form a closed hiring loop — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs: A Guide to Making It in Show…, 18