How The Shaw Festival used some well planned Risk Management and saved 500 performing arts jobs during the Pandemic

The stomach bug and understanding of communicable disease helped save the Shaw Festival during the Pandemic | https://ramlcpa.link/cmzz

How the Shaw Festival kept 500 people employed during COVID — by taking out #pandemic #insurance three years ago.

About three-and-a-half years ago, #CEO of the #ShawFestival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, decided to undertake some risk analysis alongside his #CFO. He looked at potential problem areas .... and came to a shrewd conclusion: .... The festival should take out an #insurancepolicy against the threat of a #pandemic.

The policy covered the interruption of planned performances by communicable disease. As a consequence of that remarkable #foresight, the Shaw Festival has been able to do the basically impossible ....... thanks to the coverage, Shaw’s are among the only #actors, #musicians, and #theatre workers in the #world who still have #jobs.

Jennings says, reflecting on this extraordinary stroke of luck. “It wasn’t actually genius. It wasn’t about this pandemic at all — it was about #communicable #disease.” ..... Shaw employs a rotating repertory ensemble; if one of his actors got the #flu, ten of them could, and that might stall a show. “We took it out for the whole season, thinking that if six actors got ill and we had to shut down for two weeks, we might lose two million bucks,”

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