History
The League of Resident Theaters was formally established on March 18, 1966 by Peter Zeisler, then managing director of the Minnesota Theater Company (a.k.a. the Guthrie Theatre), Thomas Fichandler, general manager of Arena Stage, and Morris Kaplan, an attorney. Until then, resident theater groups negotiated individual contracts with Equity, and most of them used modifications of commercial theater contracts. In some instances, the theaters operated under the terms of Equity's new stock contract. However, resident theater managers have long felt burdened by what they called Equity's "one production" type of contract used on Broadway. Peter Zeisler was appointed the first President with Thomas Fichandler as Vice President and William Bushnell, manager of Baltimore's Center Stage, as Secretary. There were 26 member theaters at the organization's founding.
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