Jack Haven has shared an emotional plea for work as they struggle to qualify for Screen Actors Guild health insurance.
The 32-year-old actor first found fame in the Netflix drama Atypical, and more recently has worked with director Jane Schoenbrun in 2024’s I Saw the TV Glow and this year’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
In a video being shared on social media, Haven says they are in “a bit of an emergency situation.”
They continue: “I need to make $4,000 by the end of the month in order to qualify for SAG health insurance starting in January.”
Screen Actors Guild members are required to reach a specific threshold of covered earnings from union jobs within a certain period. Typically, the minimum earnings requirement is set at between $25,950 to $28,933 per year. Members may also be able to qualify if they hit a specified minimum number of credited work days.
In the video, Haven explains: “So, I guess what I’m asking is if you, or anyone you know, can hire me on a set or production and pay me $4,000, I will do, pretty much, any job.”
They add: “I can sing, I can dance, I can talk softly… loudly, I can do accents — British. So if you have a job, you can email me: [email protected]. Thank you, it would be very appreciated.”
On X, several fans tweeted in support of Haven. One wrote: “This is literally so insane, how are they looking for work rn?? Such a talented actor and they were JUST in Camp Miasma.”
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has earned strong reviews, and won the Queer Palm award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Writing for The Independent, Adam White said: “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma casts Gillian Anderson as a vanished movie star, who played the scream queen of a Friday the 13th-style Eighties slasher film called Camp Miasma, then seemed to fall off the face of the planet. A young, queer filmmaker named Kris (played by a sharp and empathetic Hannah Einbinder, of the TV comedy Hacks) is determined to woo her back to acting, having been hired to write and direct a ‘woke’ reboot of the original movie.
“She finds Anderson’s Billy Presley living alone and spooky out in the woods where her movie was shot, dressed in Norma Desmond turbans and speaking in riddles. While they eat candy and trade psychosexual messiness, the killer from Camp Miasma – their gender all over the place and their head encased in an enormous ceiling fan – threatens to surface from the lake outside Billy’s home. It’s a lot!”
