From his 15th-story perch in midtown Manhattan, amid the glamour of the Great White Way, Tom Carpenter oversees the rights of the theater stars he has long admired. As general counsel of the Actors’ Equity Association, he also serves as one of the organization’s three regional directors, overseeing the eastern division, which includes Broadway.
Before he joined Actors’ Equity, Carpenter was chief labor counsel and assistant national executive director of SAGAFTRA, which was formed by the merger of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Prior to the merger, Carpenter had been general counsel and director of legislative affairs for AFTRA, handling contracts for network correspondents and television anchors. Carpenter’s first job out of law school was with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705 in Chicago, where he helped reform the union’s structure, investigated corruption in cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and handled arbitration and litigation. During college and law school he also clerked for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and worked at a small law firm that handled employment issues. Carpenter graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1993.
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