Brooke Shields has been elected president of Actors' Equity Association, the union that represents more than 51,000 professional stage actors and managers. She will serve a four-year term.

Shields discussed ... improved working conditions for Equity members. "I've spent so much time talking to stage managers, and the chorus, and the ensemble, and actors, and musicians.

Actors’ Equity is represents 51,000 actors and stage managers. Shields succeeds Kate Shindle as president, who announced in April that she would not seek re-election when her nine-year tenure ...