L.A. without the NEA: Tim Robbins on his $50-a-week first acting job, and why it proves the power of the NEA by Jessica Gelt

Tim Robbins' first time getting paid as an actor was through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a gangly 15-year-old performing street theater in New York with Theater for the New City. His pay was $50 per week, and he could not believe his good luck. "We were doing a social...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:25PM on April 7, 2017

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