Mark S. Zimmerman Resigns as Actors’ Equity President

Actors’ Equity Association has announced that its president, Mark S. Zimmerman, has resigned from the position, effective immediately. Equity’s First Vice President Paige Price will carry out the duties of the President until a new president is elected.

Zimmerman, who is currently in the Broadway company of West Side Story, said in his resignation statement, “I didn’t go into this business to be a president of a union. I did it to be an Actor. I miss that, and I want to devote my time to doing what I love.”

The actor has been a member of Equity since 1976, and became president in 2006 when then-President Patrick Quinn resigned from the position to become the Executive Director of Actors’ Equity Association.