Member education opportunities and program details.
At the Table
A volunteer program that SAG-AFTRA Chicago partners with IFA Chicago in an effort to introduce SAG-AFTRA to up and coming filmmakers through the reading of their "soon-to-be" produced feature films. The program began in 2017 with a call for scripts that resulted in about 60 submissions that were judged by a team of local industry professionals.
Submitted screenplays should be within about 1 year of going into production. Script submissions are accepted at chicago@sagaftra.org
The Table Reads take place in the KRC in front of a live audience made up of guests invited by the filmmaker and members of SAG-AFTRA and IFA Chicago. The read is followed by a moderated discussion and reception.
If you have any questions regarding this program, or any other SAG-AFTRA Chicago program, please reach submit questions to chicago@sagaftra.org.
Radio Players
In 1997, the Seniors Committee of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild formed the AFTRA/SAG Radio Players (now the SAG-AFTRA Radio Players) for the purpose of keeping alive the uniqueness of radio as the theater of the imagination.
Several times a year audiences are invited to witness the performance of classic radio scripts by voice actors, sound effects artists employing as many manual devices as possible, and, often, a real, live keyboard player. And the SAG-AFTRA Radio Players stay faithful to the original model by having to get it right the first time--no retakes permitted. Some of the group's actors appeared in network radio drama when Chicago was a major production center. All the members of the troupe are professionals who made, and, in many instances, continue to make their livings before microphones and in front of cameras and audiences.