Having recently enrolled in EMC I have been having a brighter outlook about working as a full time professional stage manager- maybe it's just because I hate my day job though
Regardless, I have been spending a good deal of time reviewing different Equity contracts and documents trying to prepare myself for the future, and I thought of this thread when I happened to open the AEA Theatrical Season Report for 11-12, and saw that it contained a lot of the information on average weeks worked for AEA members and I was initially shocked to see the number hovered around 17 weeks. 17. out of 52 weeks in the year. Understanding how averages work and knowing there are a ton of unemployed or underemployed actors probably skewing this number, it was still crazy to me. I already have worked 34 weeks this year in theatre (not all EMC) with contracts lined up through the end of the year as well.
They did have the statistics broken down by Principal / Chorus / Stage Management Contracts, and if my math was a little better (and my brain wasn't fried from tech!) I could check to see if the percentages were any better for SM's.
You can check out the document in the Document Library at the following link:
http://www.actorsequity.org/library/library.asp?cat=1