Not an Actor's Guild
I promise you, it's not a typographical error. While most people simply shorten to the Actor's Guild, the fact remains that they are entirely honest about the fact that they are not actors. Technically.
This doesn't stop people from hiring them on for various theatrical and cinematic productions. It also doesn't stop these "not actors" from infiltrating whatever they have been hired to infiltrate and then departing with all due haste, leaving behind some poor idiot of a director who now has lost half his cast and is under suspicion for fraud or possibly treason.
In the defense of those casting directors, the artists of the Not the Actor's Guild are some of the best thespians in the industry.
Processes and Procedures
Most countries employ their own spies, for obvious reasons. You need people you can trust will betray others but not you, and that particular brand of loyalty can only be homegrown. Still, there is a significant market for what is essentially a spy-for-hire. Traditionally, such people were hard to find, difficult to trust, and had a low life expectancy. The guild changed that. It provided safety for the members, and a certain level of accountability for any potential treachery that might occur because someone was not from a country they were spying on behalf of. Naturally, they are highly illegal and forbidden in every country. Somehow, none of them are ever arrested and the guilds have even begun to have official buildings and contact forms.Structure
There is a certain structure to the organization. No one outside of the organization knows it, but something so successful at getting known and registered clandestine operatives into the areas they need to spy on would have to have a very effective organizational system.
The public face of the guild is a different matter. There is a guild president (presumably not the actual leader), a number of officers, and several branches spread around the world. The main branch is found in Denyithragorathia.
Culture
If my information is accurate, it is required that new recruits be in the regular Actor's Guild before being approached to join this guild. It is possibly to apply, but extremely rare to be accepted.
There is a certain mercenary attitude required to be a successful member of the guild. After all, one must be ready to abandon a theatrical production in the middle if one is about to be caught in an act of espionage, and that is a crime that goes against the very soul of an entertainer. There's also the matter of being willing to spy on anyone, betray any country, all for whatever price was agreed upon.
Actors for a cause if you pay them enough
Founding Date
2006
Type
Guild, Professional
Alternative Names
Traitorous hounds, International Entertainers of Crime
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