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SAG-AFTRA Announces New Executive Committee

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SAG-AFTRA Announces New Executive Committee
SAG-AFTRA, the new performers' union that was formed on March 30 with the merger of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, has taken its first official action by establishing an initial 24-member executive committee. The panel was announced on on Wednesday, Variety reported.

The committee is composed of a dozen national officers, and SAG-AFTRA co-presidents Ken Howard and Roberta Reardon have each appointed six additional members. Per the merger agreement, Howard and Reardon will chair the SAG-AFTRA executive committee.

The officers are Ned Vaughn, executive VP; Amy Aquino and Matthew Kimbrough, co-secretary-treasurers; Gabrielle Carteris, Los Angeles VP; Mike Hodge, New York VP; Craig Dellimore, mid-sized locals VP; David Hartley-Margolin, small locals VP; Michael O'Keefe, actor/performer VP; Catherine Brown, broadcaster VP; and Jim Ferguson, recording artist VP.

The appointed members are David Browde, Assaf Cohen, Rebecca Damon, Denise Dal Vera, Abby Dylan, Anne Gartlan, Holter Graham, Jon Joyce, Joseph Krebs Jr., Clyde Kusatsu, Richard Masur and Bill Mootos. Alternates are Adam Arkin, Bobbie Bates, Dee Dawson, Maureen Donnelly, Sharon Ferguson, Sam Freed, Ed Fry, Maria Leticia Gomez, Arye Gross, Todd Hissong, Susan Boyd Joyce, and Jenny O'Hara.

According to Variety, a 110-member national board has also been created by combining the boards of SAG and AFTRA, but SAG-AFTRA has not set the new board's first meeting. The executive committee must report its activities to the 110-member national board on a quarterly basis.

The current leaders of SAG-AFTRA will be up for election in summer 2013. The merged union has about 160,000 members.

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