Overview

What you need to know

Equity-League Benefit Funds are not-for-profit organizations that provide health and retirement benefits to eligible employees represented by Actors’ Equity Association. Founded in the early 1960s, the Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds were established to ensure financial protection for actors and stage managers facing illness, disability, and/or retirement. The 401(k) Fund was established in 2001.

ELBF provides the following benefits to eligible actors and stage managers:

  • Health coverage (medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and supplemental workers’ compensation)
  • Pension (lifetime monthly income)
  • 401(k) (accounts that accumulate tax-deferred income and/or employer-paid contributions through various investment vehicles)

ELBF and Actors’ Equity are two separate and distinct organizations. Information you provide to one organization is not necessarily shared with the other. Information that may be important to both organizations is stored separately by each.

The Funds are committed to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We celebrate our employees’ range of experiences and talents. We also encourage a culture that values differences in age, disability status, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, language, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, among other categories.

We are strongly opposed to all forms of bullying, harassment, and discrimination of any kind. Instead, we seek to establish and maintain an environment that feels affirming, safe, and fair for all employees. We commit to regularly reviewing our practices and policies to support this vital and empowering work.

We acknowledge and respect that we do our work on the island of Manahatta in Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape, an offspring of the Algonquin civilization, on what is now called Manhattan in New York, New York. We honor the Lenape peoples and their continuing presence in the homeland.

Pension and Health Trust Funds

The Equity-League Pension and Health Trust Funds are administered by a Board of Trustees comprised of an equal number of members appointed by Actors’ Equity Association and members appointed by The Broadway League. The Trustees are legally obligated to act for the exclusive benefit of the participants and to administer the Funds in accordance with the governing documents.

Union Trustees
Jeff Applegate
David Blitzstein
Stephen Bogardus
Christine Bunuan
Doug Carfrae
Regina Mincey-Garlin
Brian Myers Cooper
Ira Mont
Julia Simpson
Nikki Switzer
Eugenio Vargas
Al Vincent, Jr.

Employer Trustees
Christopher Brockmeyer
George S. Forbes
Hal Goldberg
Stephanie Grassi
Elliot Greene
Barry Grove
Amy Jacobs
Khady Kamara
David Richards
Tony Thomas
David Turner

Executive Director
Vincent Cinelli

401(k) Trust Fund

The Equity-League 401(k) Trust Fund is governed by a Board of Trustees comprised of members appointed by Actors’ Equity Association and members appointed by The Broadway League. The Trustees are legally obligated to act for the exclusive benefit of the participants and to administer the Fund in accordance with the governing documents.

Union Trustees
Doug Carfrae
Sandra Karas
Regina Mincey-Garlin
Ira Mont
Mark Zimmerman

Employer Trustees
Christopher Brockmeyer
George S. Forbes
Cheri Phillips

Executive Director
Vincent Cinelli

Contacts

Equity-League Benefit Funds Office

(212) 869-9380
(800) 344-5220 (outside NYC)
Health Fax: (212) 869-3323
401(k) and Pension Fax: (212) 869-1824

Actors’ Equity Association

National Headquarters
(212) 869-8530
Fax: (212) 719-9815
Website