The Screen Actors Guild on Thursday released the official list of candidates for its upcoming national officer and national board elections. National president and national secretary-treasurer positions are up for election, both of which carry two-year terms. Approximately 1/3 of the total 69 national board seats are open for election this year.
The candidates for national president are David Hillberg, incumbent Ken Howard, Asmar Muhammad and Sharon Rubin. The candidate for national secretary-treasurer is Amy Aquino, running unopposed.
The only slate fielding candidates in Hollywood is Unite for Strength, which issued a press release at the same time as SAG’s. As before, Howard, and 1st Vice President Ned Vaughn are running under the UFS banner. The pro-merger group will also field a full slate of 34 candidates to run for positions on the guild’s national and Hollywood boards of directors.
MembershipFirst, the historically anti-merger group which effectively controlled the guild from 2005 through early 2009, ran a slate as recently as last year, but did not do so this time.
The UFS slate features 27 incumbent or returning candidates, including sitting board member Adam Arkin, and 7 first-time candidates, including Tony Shalhoub (Monk), Stephen Collins (No Ordinary Family), Kate Flannery (The Office), Lisa Vidal (The Event), and Iqbal Theba (Glee).
In New York, candidates are being fielded by established slate United Screen Actors Nationwide and breakaway group One.Strong.Union, both of which are pro-merger.
“I’m proud to be running with these candidates,” said Howard in reference to his UFS colleagues. “Two years ago, I promised members I would do everything possible to bring SAG and AFTRA together. . . Members have made it clear they need action as soon as possible, and I’m committed to delivering a formal merger plan by January.” Aquino and Vaughn echoed Howard’s assessment.
Shalhoub said, “I grew up in a union town, and as an actor I’ve always known there was a union behind me. We must never take our union protections for granted and we must never be divided.”
Other candidates did not immediately release statements. All candidates and slates are listed below.
National officer ballots will be mailed to all eligible SAG members nationwide on August 23 with a return deadline and tabulation on September 22. Election results are expected to be announced that evening. The same schedule will apply to the Hollywood and New York Division elections.
The Hollywood Division will elect 12 national board members and 22 alternates. Eleven (11) candidate positions will be seated for a three (3) year term and one (1) candidate position will be seated for a one (1) year term (all national board alternates serve for one year). The New York Division will elect 5 national board members and 9 alternates. Each seat is for a three-year term (all national board alternates serve for one year).
(A THR story prior to the release of the candidate list suggested (based on information that turned out to be incorrect) that Clancy Brown may have been running for a national board seat. It turns out that he’s not, and THR regrets any inconvenience the report may have caused. The other ten people listed in that story are indeed running.)
Candidates for New York Division president are OSU’s Sam Robards and USAN-endorsed incumbent Mike Hodge.
Directors holding seven other national board seats will be elected from SAG Branches outside Hollywood and New York. Only one of those seats, in Nevada, is contested.
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2011 SAG Hollywood Division Board Election Candidates
(Candidate names are listed in random order, as they will appear on the ballot.)
1. D.W. Moffett
2. Mimi Cozzens
3. William Mapother
4. Tony Shalhoub
5. Assaf Cohen
6. Scott Pierce
7. Ken Howard
8. Arye Gross
9. Michael O’Neill
10. Ned Vaughn
11. Mandy Steckelberg
12. Bertila Damas
13. Rene Aubry
14. Robert Elliott
15. Jane Daly
16. George T. Woods
17. Jon Huertas
18. Allen Lulu
19. Bob Bergen
20. Scott Bakula
21. Stephen Mendel
22. Stacey Travis
23. Amy Aquino
24. Peter Antico
25. DeWayne Williams
26. Esai Morales
27. Valerie Harper
28. Tara Radcliffe
29. Stephen Collins
30. Lisa Vidal
31. George Coe
32. Woody Schultz
33. Christine Lakin
34. John Solari
35. Adam Arkin
36. Donal Logue
37. Parvesh Cheena
38. Kate Flannery
39. John Tremaine
40. Conrad E. Palmisano
41. Michelle Allsopp
42. Vivicca A. Whitsett
43. Ellen Crawford
44. David Dorfman
45. Iqbal Theba
46. Mobin Khan
47. Sarayu Rao
48. Ron Ostrow
49. Patrick Fabian
50. Tony Santoro
51. David Hillberg
52. John Carroll Lynch
53. William Charlton
54. James Paradise
55. L. Scott Caldwell
56. David Jolliffe
57. Nicholas Stankevich
2011 SAG New York Division Board Election Candidates
(Candidate names are listed in order by randomly selecting a letter and then listing candidate names alphabetically by last name starting with the letter selected. The letter “K” was randomly selected. Following is the order in which they will appear on the ballot.)
1. Ezra Knight
2. Gy Mirano
3. Joe Narciso
4. Jay Potter
5. Sam Robards
6. John Rothman
7. Kevin Scullin
8. Matt Servitto
9. Manny Alfaro
10. Corey Anker
11. Dave Bachman
12. Marc Baron
13. Justin Barrett
14. Lewis Black
15. Mark Blum
16. Rebecca Damon
17. Kelly Deadmon
18. Andrew Dolan
19. Traci Godfrey
20. Jeff Gurner
21. Phoebe Jonas
2011 SAG Regional Branch Division Board Election Candidates
(Candidate names are listed in alphabetical order, as they will appear on the ballot. In Regional Branches where candidates ran for office unopposed, the candidates may be declared elected without the necessity of a membership vote*.)
Boston
Bill Mootos* (elected)
Dallas*
Suzanne Burkhead* (elected)
Detroit
Ed Kelly* (elected)
Houston
Robert Nelson* (elected)
Nashville
Cece DuBois* (elected)
Nevada
Art Lynch
Rick Rockne
Washington, D.C./Balt.
Stephen F. Schmidt* (elected)
Unite for Strength’s 2011 Screen Actors Guild officer and board candidates are:
President
Ken Howard
Secretary Treasurer
Amy Aquino
Board of Directors (with ballot number)
Michelle Allsopp – 41
Amy Aquino – 23
Adam Arkin – 35
Bob Bergen – 19
L. Scott Caldwell – 55
William Charlton – 53
Parvesh Cheena – 37
Assaf Cohen – 5
Stephen Collins – 29
Mimi Cozzens – 29
Ellen Crawford – 43
Bertila Damas – 12
Patrick Fabian – 49
Kate Flannery – 38
Arye Gross – 8
Ken Howard – 7
Jon Huertas – 17
Christine Lakin – 33
Donal Logue – 36
Allen Lulu – 18
John Carroll Lynch – 52
D.W. Moffett – 1
Michael O’Neill – 9
Conrad Palmisano – 40
Tara Radcliffe – 28
Sarayu Rao – 47
Woody Schultz – 32
Tony Shalhoub – 4
Mandy Steckelberg – 11
Iqbal Theba – 45
Stacey Travis – 22
Ned Vaughn – 10
Lisa Vidal – 30
Vivicca Whitsett – 42
New York
USAN candidates seeking New York board positions are Manny Alfaro, Dave Bachman, Marc Baron, Lewis Black, Marc Blum, Rebecca Damon, Traci Godfrey, Ezra Knight, Jay Potter, Jon Rothman, and Kevin Scullin. The group also endorsed incumbent Mike Hodge for New York Division President.
OSU candidates seeking New York board positions are Sam Robards, Matt Servitto, Joe Narciso, Justin Barrett, Andrew Dolan, Corey Anker, Kelly Deadmon, Jeff Gurner, Phoebe Jonas and Gy Mirano. Robards is also running for New York Division President.
