Canadian Actors' Equity Association (Equity) is the national association of 6,000 active performers, directors, choreographers, fight directors, intimacy directors, and stage managers who are engaged in professional live performance in theatre, dance, and opera. Equity supports the creative efforts of its members by seeking to improve their working conditions, protections, and opportunities.

The Executive Director (ED) is the chief executive officer and senior administrator responsible for all Equity staff operations. This position presents the opportunity to lead a professional association of artists working in Canadian live performance who are united within a vital and evolving national arts community. The mandate of the ED is unusually wide-ranging, and the challenge is unique – to serve an organization whose members are both owners and clients.