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I got my Equity card at 24 at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, and they asked me to join the company. I was content and happy working in the company there for a long while until I really started to feel as if I hit a bit of a glass ceiling artistically.

— John Carroll Lynch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Paul Daigneault of The SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston gave me my Equity card playing Marta in 'Company' right before I graduated Boston University. He knew my next stop was New York. I cannot say enough good things about the SpeakEasy Stage Company.

— Sara Chase

I went to Northwestern in Chicago, in Evanston, and then I ended up trickling down in Chicago theater. I did a bunch of plays, but I was non-equity. For a lot of people, non-equity means you're not yet professional. But for me, if you're in a mainstream theater, you're doing something real.

— Denis O'Hare

I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

— Mahershala Ali

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

— Solomon Burke

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

— John C. McGinley

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

— Tupac Shakur

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

— Devon Sawa

✗Opposing Perspectives

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

— Colman Domingo

I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

— Leslie Odom, Jr.