(Elisha Fieldstadt’s article appeared on ABC news, 8/18; Photo: Actress Laura Osnes at Universal Studios Hollywood on November 21, 2019 in Universal City, Calif.Paul Archuleta / Getty Images file.)
She said she and her husband have not gotten the shot because “there is so much that is still unknown.”
Broadway star Laura Osnes said she quit a one-night benefit concert because the theater required actors to be vaccinated against Covid and she has decided not to get the shot.
On Friday, The New York Post’s Page Six reported that Osnes was fired from the one-night preview of “Crazy For You” at the Guild Hall in New York’s East Hampton on Aug. 29.
Osnes and the theater did not respond to NBC News’ requests for comment Friday.
A representative for Guild Hall told Page Six that it is requiring staff and performers to be vaccinated or submit a negative Covid test.
Osnes, 35, denied that she was fired, and denied that she was offered the option to submit a negative Covid test.
Osnes wrote in a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday that she withdrew from the production when she learned Guild Hall was requiring vaccinations.
“It was a drama-free and discrete transition,” Osnes wrote, refuting Page Six’s reporting that her co-star had “pressed her on the matter.”
An option to provide a negative Covid test “was never extended to me. I would have tested in a heartbeat — something I have been doing for months, and will continue to do, in order to keep working safely,” Osnes wrote.
She said she and her husband have not gotten the shot because “there is so much that is still unknown.”
