$10 Tickets, Equal Living Wages & The Battle Against AI Art - Ben Zingos
Why has the commercialtheatre industry normalized the "starving artist" trope, and how canan independent nonprofit provide radically affordable $10 tickets while payingevery cast and crew member an equal living wage?
Ben Zingos is a multidisciplinary theatre artist, scenicdesigner, and the Executive Director of the Los Angeles-based Space Pirates Theatre Collective. Operating through acodified immersive methodology that transforms found spaces into living worlds,Ben is challenging the traditional, top-heavy theatre establishment. Byadopting a flat pay scale inspired by 17th-century pirate…
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