WEST BAY OPERA

COVID-19 SAFETY POLICY

To keep you and everyone in the West Bay Opera community safe from severe COVID-19 related illness, hospitalization or death, WBO has established this health safety policy for its 2022-2023 season. WBO requires everyone involved in a production (artists, production staff, front-of-house staff and audience members) to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination and wear face masks at all times to gain access to the performance auditorium, all backstage areas and rehearsal spaces. (See footnote 1)

Vaccination Requirement

• Submit proof of completion of (a) the primary series of 1 (J&J/Janssen) or 2 (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Novavax) COVID-19 vaccinations2.
• If you received email notification from WBO last season that you met the vaccination requirement then, you need not resubmit vaccination proof. If in doubt or for other questions, please email vaxxproof@gmail.com. 
• Vaccination proof (Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record [DCVR] or photo of your paper vaccination card) may be submitted on the WBO website: https://www.wbopera.org/blog-Don-Giovanni-proof-of-vax-form2022.
• If you were vaccinated in California, you can easily download your Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record (DCVR) from https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/.  (See footnote 2)

COVID-19 Testing for Performers and Production Team

• Take a rapid test for COVID-19 

1. a couple of hours before joining the first in-person rehearsal or production call. 
2. anytime you first develop COVID-19-like symptoms during the production run.
3. once we move into the theater starting with the Saturday afternoon tech run, we perform unmasked, but we're masked anytime we're offstage. AND we take a rapid test every day two hours before getting to the theater and report the results on the WBO test results webpage. Deck crew and all production personnel in the theater must test daily and remain masked throughout. Orchestra members remain masked at all times, except for wind players.

• Report all COVID-19 test results to WBO through the webpage: https://www.wbopera.org/Don-Giovanni-test-results-page-2022.
• WBO will reimburse $10 per rapid test per person. In order to get reimbursed, all cast and production team members must enter results and upload a picture of the results strip the same day of the test. We will not accept backdated requests. People who fail to report test results before arriving at the theater will have to complete this step before they are allowed to enter the premises.

If You Have Symptoms or Test Positive

• Help keep us all safe and limit the spread of COVID-19 by:
• Staying home (a) if you have COVID-19 symptoms or (b) if you test positive for COVID-19.
• Avoiding in-person contact with other WBO performers or production team members following a positive COVID-19 test, until you (a) again test negative and (b) have a normal temperature reading at least 24 hours after testing negative.
• Notify your designated WBO Safety Team Member to discuss appropriate risk mitigation if:
• You are experiencing what you believe are COVID-19-like symptoms.
• You (a) test positive for COVID-19 or (b) you learn that you may have been exposed to COVID-19 (by someone who tested positive after having direct physical contact with you) and you are called to an in-person production, rehearsal, performance or performance event within 5 days of the moment of exposure.

Notes

1. Wind instrument players are exempt from the mask requirement while rehearsing or performing, but must wear a mask at all other times in the theater or rehearsal facilities. Singers will rehearse and perform unmasked once the production moves into the theater, but must be masked at all times when not onstage .

2. See other CDC guidance for individuals vaccinated outside the US or with special health conditions.

COVID - Safety Compliance Lead and Responsibilities: Drew Jones, Production Manager

• Monitor and archive vaccination proof submissions
• Notify individuals of complete vaccination proof submissions
• Exercise reasonable judgement in approving minor deviations to this policy and notify appropriate Safety Team Member
• Report vaccination compliance gaps to other COVID-19 Safety Team Members for their area(s) or responsibility
• Escalate risks or non-compliance issues to General Director
• Monitor COVID-19 testing submissions and report any positive test results to appropriate Safety Team Member and to General Director for risk mitigation

COVID - Safety Compliance Coordinators

Chorus:  Joanne Bogart, Chorus Manager

Principal Singers: José Luis Moscovich, General Director

Orchestra:  Christy Crews, Orchestra Manager

Production Staff and Volunteers: Sarah Terman, Stage Manager

Responsibilities of Compliance Coordinators:

• Submit to Safety Compliance Lead names and email addresses of individuals subject to this policy
• Share with Safety Compliance Lead any suggestions for timing of vaccination compliance reports
• Assist Safety Compliance Lead in closing any vaccination compliance gaps for individual
• Escalate risks or non-compliance issues to the Safety Compliance Lead and eventually to the General Director 
• Develop risk mitigation plans for any reported positive COVID-19 tests, symptoms or likely exposures and notify General Director