In early 2015, Actors' Equity Association announced that it was gutting its decades-old 99-Seat Theatre Plan which allowed its LA members to volunteer to act in inimate, nocommercial theatre in small venues for a stipend, as they made their liveliehood from television, film, commercials and the limited amount of commercial theatre that was produced in the area. The new AEA proposal mandated that its members be paid minimum wage for both performances and rehearsals (which AEA members had previously volunteered their time for, free of charge), a 1,000% increase from what intimate theatres had paid AEA actors prior to that.

A collection of heroes rose to strike down the AEA proposal and Jonny, a longtime practitioner of 99-seat theatre in Los Angeles, immediately joined them by providing hastily thrown together, wise-ass illustrations and posting them on the Social Network.

This is their story.

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