Kenyan Actors to Finally Form a Union

Kenyan actors will meet on the 26th of October at the Kenya National Theatre from 9:00 a.m. in a move that will see the thespians come together to actualize the Kenya Actors Guild (KAG).

Every Kenyan actor is being requested to attend this meeting where the agenda of the day will be:

– Introduce the Guild to actors (answer the questions of “What” and “Why”).
– Go through the guild constitution (facilitated by a lawyer- which you can download here)
– Recruitment of members to the Guild and its process.
– Chart the way forward for the guild and its members.

This will be followed by speeches from Kenya Film Commission Rep, Kenya Film and Television Producers Association representatives and a Q & A.

KAG was registered under the Societies Act to look into Kenyan actors’ welfare in 2008 and the founding members are Chairman Peter King Mwania, Secretary Lupita Nyong’o and Treasurer Elly Omukubi among others. However due to unavoidable circumstances, the guild never came to really take off.

Gerald Langiri took over from where that was left off when he founded www.actors.co.ke in 2011 and also had the same vision in mind for the acting industry. He says, “Kenya Film Commission has been very helpful towards actualization of the guild and their continued assistance cannot go unmentioned. They have assisted in setting up this 1st workshop and we are still working with them towards branding of the guild in due course.”