Matthew D. Loeb, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, met this week with union members who work at the Kennedy Center and who face financial uncertainty as a result of more than a dozen show cancellations made in protest of Donald Trump’s takeover of the performing arts complex’s board.
“Behind-the-scenes workers need to feed our families and have neither participated in any decisions relating to booked content, nor have we considered social issues as a matter of whether we service a production in the history of our relationship at the Kennedy Center,” Loeb said in a statement.