Welcome to the Local 764 Website

The History of Local 764

The Theatrical Wardrobe Union (TWU) Local 764 has represented wardrobe personnel in the New York area since it was founded in 1919 and chartered under the American Federation of Labor as Theatrical Wardrobe Attendants Union # 16770. On August 1, 1942, the Union was granted a charter by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada (I.A.T.S.E.) and became Local #764 of the International. In October 1982 a revised charter was issued in the name of Theatrical Wardrobe Union. In 1990, with the merger of NABET Local 15 and the I.A.T.S.E., Local 764 became the only local representing wardrobe workers in the New York City area.

Jurisdiction

Local 764 is unique in that it has contracts in all areas of the entertainment industry. Its members work as Wardrobe Supervisors, (or Costumers) and Assistants on feature films, pilots, soap operas, commercials and a variety of television programs. They are Wardrobe Supervisors, Assistants, and Dressers at venues including Broadway theatres, the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center Theatres, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum, and Radio City Music Hall.

The physical jurisdiction is defined as within a 50 mile radius of Columbus Circle for film and New York City, Long Island and Westchester County for theatre.

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