By David Paulsen
Posted Jan 22, 2021
The Episcopal Actors’ Guild, based at New York’s Church of the Transfiguration, started its food pantry in 2014 to supplement the assistance it provides to struggling actors and other performers. In-person grocery pickup has been suspended during the pandemic. Photo: Episcopal Actors’ Guild via YouTube
[Episcopal News Service] The sharp economic downturn in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic has hit the performing arts industry particularly hard. Nationwide, more than half of all actors and dancers and more than a quarter of all musicians were out of work as of fall 2020, according to the National Endowment for the Arts.