It’s a landslide! The results are in, and Equity members have made their position clear with a 99.6% YES vote. They are prepared and ready to take action to secure AI protections. www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/pe...

"It's terrifying." 🚨 AUDIO ARTISTS LIVING IN FEAR OF AI This weekend's article in The Telegraph featuring Equity Audio's #MarcusHutton and @equityuk.bsky.social Screen & New Media's #LaurenceBouvard. Thank you to both for highlighting this issue so eloquently. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/actors-...

Audio artists: use our NEW recommended min. rates & best practice for recording audiobooks. 1/2🧵👇

The guidance has been put together by Equity’s audio committee while we continue to fight for a collective agreement in the industry, so that all audio artists are guaranteed decent pay. www.equity.org.uk/advice-and-support/know-your-rights/audio-info-hub/audiobooks

Till The Stars Come Down has transferred beautifully to the Haymarket 💫❤️‍🔥💫❤️‍🔥💫❤️‍🔥💫❤️‍🔥 Bravo to our dear friend Beth Steel. It was an honour to be by your side on your West-End debut. 🙏🏻❤️ If you are in London this summer, don’t miss out on an epic night of theatre.🎭 @nationaltheatre.org.uk #theatrelondon

🚨 VOTE NOW IN THE @equityuk.bsky.social COMMITTEE ELECTIONS As outgoing Audio Committee member Louise Barrett says, for the first time *all* committees are contested so it's really important to make your voice heard. Search your inbox for 'ukevote' to get your ballot link. #YOUareTheUnion

Equity friends! I am standing for a second term on the Audio Committee. @equityaudio.bsky.social Please consider voting for me so I can continue to push for better rates, conditions and protections for ALL voices. Audio is often a Wild West but we do make a difference when we work together. 💪💜

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER UNETHICAL AI EXPLOITATION EquityAudio calls on @readspeaker.com - who claim to "empower accessibility & inclusion" - and #ScotRail to reconsider selling and using Gayanne's voice without her consent. #StopAIStealingTheShow✊🏻 @equityuk.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After a few years of learning, deepening and procrastinating... 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️ 🎙️💫I have finally cut an animation demo! I hope y'all like it! 🐰🍦👧💃👶🍬👵🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇷🇮🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧 #voiceactor #animationvoice #comédienne #animation youtu.be/ctIv6YkVfm4?...

SO deserved! Eline Arbo is a genius. THE YEARS is one of the best things I have ever seen. Catch it at Harold Pinter theatre before it ends!

We were at #BAFTAGamesAwards tonight calling on bosses to improve pay & conditions for video game performers through union agreements! While it’s great to celebrate successes, bosses can’t ignore the poor pay & practices faced by the workforce #EquityGameOn (Photos: Mark Thomas)

Well done everyone! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

RETROGRADE by Ryan Calais Cameron is now on at the Apollo Theatre. It is SO SO GOOD. The writing, the acting, everything! A much needed story for our times and I won't say more because I want you to have the same wondefurl night at the theatre that I had. GO GO GO! 🎭❤️✊

Meta Faces Legal Challenge by French Publishers Over AI Training www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/tec...

Meet THE PIXEL PACK: the actors changing the game…for gaming. ew.com/pixel-pack-m... Thanks to @ivanweiss-london.bsky.social @shinehousepr.bsky.social and the juggernaut/gem that is @neilnewbon.bsky.social

So delighted for Beth Steel that her wonderful play TILL THE STARS COME DOWN will be transfering to the West-End this summer. 👏👏👏👰‍♀️👰‍♀️✨✨✨✨✨

WGGB Audio Co-Chair Nicola Baldwin is talking on BBC Radio 4 Feedback this afternoon at 3.30pm, about plans to axe audio drama from BBC Radio 3 + why it is so important that we must Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Tell Government to drop plans to allow #bigtech companies to scrape creators’ work for use in AI models without their consent or payment! One week left to complete the Copyright and #AI consultation. Take action now👇 www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-policy/stop-ai-stealing-the-show

🎙️ Today is World Radio Day, but audio drama is under serious threat! 🎙️ Please sign and share our petition to save audio drama at the BBC. Let’s reach 10,000 ✍️👇 www.change.org/p/save-audio...

Happy #WorldRadioDay! Send a video message to Director-General Tim Davie + the BBC about why audio drama is so important to you, why you oppose their cuts and why we must Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC writersguild.org.uk/save-audio-d...

⚠️ Performers are facing industrial scale theft by AI companies. We’ve written to entertainment bosses today calling for an urgent conversation over AI use. Full story 👇 www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/en...

Throwback to our Germany tour of The Hypondriac by Molière. Shot from the wings by Guillaume Laroche. Here, my Toinette decides that crushing Argan might THE cure to his ailments. Such a fun part to play and Sion Hughes (Argan) was not even harmed! #moliere #theatre #lemaladeimaginaire #toinette

Tonight we open at the Yard, and we also invite you to a Grief Mixer next Tuesday 4 Feb. DM us if you want a discount code for that Eve as well!

Baroness Kidron speaking in defense of the creative industries @houseoflords.parliament.uk against the government's Ai plans. @neilcoyle.bsky.social I am counting on you to defend Southwark creatives in the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk

Baroness Kidron standing up for the creative industries against the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government's Ai plans in the #DataUseandAccessBill 'The Government have a preferred option, but they have no enforcement mechanism. They have a preferred option, but no protocols

Join us at the member briefing on the government's AI proposals next Tuesday 28th, 3-4pm. Together, like last time, we can fight this. ✊🏻 Register for the Zoom here: equity-org-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

‼️Creatives please fill in this UK Government Consulation on Ai. ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... UK gov’s preferred approach is to let commercial Ai train on our works unless we ‘reserve our rights’.👎 ❌The EU has tried it and it is proving unworkable for artists & rights holders.

Labour’s AI plans risk putting “large swathes of the creative industries out of work by legalising theft”. Read the stark warning by Ed Newton-Rex 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our @equity4gnd.bsky.social members and all at @equityuk.bsky.social send solidarity to @sagaftra.org, @actorsequity.bsky.social and all those working in the film, tv and gaming industries who have been affected by the L.A. wildfires.

Podcasts, audio drama and radio in general are booming on all platforms. And yet the BBC wants to cut audio drama futher... This makes no sense! Please sign the joint petition from writers and performers unions. www.change.org/p/save-audio...

Despite what recent commentary might suggest, the West End is on the up and here’s why, writes @lyngardnertheatre.bsky.social 👇 www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/igno...

We have responded to the Government’s 'AI Opportunities Action Plan' released today by calling for rights and ethical data use to be at the heart of the approach to ‘turbocharge’ AI adoption.

🚨 @equityuk.bsky.social's BIG AUDIO AUDIT needs YOU🚨 We need your help in finding out what members are currently being paid for various types of audio work, which will then inform our negotiations for fairer rates of pay. The survey sections can be found here: www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/eq...

We're starting the year with blue skies! 💙 Wishing all our audio-working members an excellent (and equitable 😉) 2025. As ever, your audio committee is here for advice and support throughout the year. Contact us at... [email protected] With warm wishes and solidarity. ✊🏻

⚠️ Essential listening for all creators - writers, designers, film-makers, fine artists, performers etc. 🤖 Ai is already taking our livelihoods but we can still get it regulated by government. For that, we need to be informed! Thank you to The Last Human Voice podcast. 💜

🎙️Equity launches The Big Audio Audit 🚀🔎 ❓Are you an Equity member? Have you done audio work in the last 2 years? 🫵 OUR UNION NEEDS YOU! 🙏 Please fill the Audio Audit to help improve pay & conditions in audio. 💜✊ www.equity.org.uk/news/2024/eq... @equityuk.bsky.social

We are not asking for the moon!! The UK should reach 'the European average of investing 0.5% of GDP in the arts.' But instead of that, our sector is shrinking under @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

🎥 Ya disponible en español el film sobre mi mandato como Relator Especial ONU sobre lxs #Defensorxs del Medio Ambiente de @UNECEAarhus 👀 Mírala para saber quién puede beneficiarse de esta protección y cómo. ✊ Comparte entre quienes más lo necesitan. youtube.com/watch?v=BONybF…

I had the joy of working on The Wreck by Florent Maurin @thepixelhunt.bsky.social . The game just won an AppStore Award for Cultural Impact! Congratulations Florent and everyone involved. 🙌

“What we need is the government to incentivise generative AI models that source legally and ethically compliant data." - Equity's Liam Budd at today's CMS committee on impact of AI. UK law is failing to protect performers' rights when it comes to AI. We need change now.

Hello new world of Bluesky! Let's see how things pan out this time. 🤞