My name is Robert Harding, a Stage Manager with 24 years of CAEA membership and a member of the Stage Management Committee since 2018. I would be honoured to serve on Council and extend support to all prospective, current, and senior members.
The necessary change the Association and the sector set in motion in response to the pandemic provided hope. For some, that pause gave time to reflect, plan, and question conditions in our workplaces and lives. We find some of those improvements reflected in the most recent ratification of agreements. If elected, I hope to see continued improvements and help carry those hopes forward through encouraging increased membership education, fostering discussion about revisiting language in our agreements, and urging all to advocate for their needs, by questioning and shifting long accepted norms that require advancement.
Our story will only advance with open dialogue and an active curiosity for what comes next.