YPT COVID Protocols

** Guidance may change as CDC and California State guidance changes **

• All actors (vaccinated or unvaccinated) participating in a YPT production will wear a mask during auditions, rehearsals, and shows.
• All production team members (vaccinated or unvaccinated) including director, musical director, costumer, communication coordinator, and any other adult interacting with the youth actors will wear a mask. Per CDC mask policies for ALL set the expectation that people will use masks.
• All actors (vaccinated or unvaccinated) will utilize Healthy Davis Together free COVID-19 testing or another testing facility and report the results twice per week. Tests must be spaced ~3 days apart. https://healthydavistogether.org/testing/
• All production team members (vaccinated or unvaccinated) including parent volunteers will provide a negative COVID-19 test result either twice per week, if regularly at the theater, or 72 hours prior to a work shift, for those working Tech Week and/or a performance.
• All actors will utilize hand sanitizer when arriving at the theater.
• All actors and YPT volunteers/parents/guardians must self-certify NO to the following questions to be allowed to enter DMTC:
  • Have you experienced any of the following symptoms in the past 48 hours:
    • Fever or chills
    • Cough
    • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
    • Fatigue
    • Muscle or body aches
    • Headache
    • New loss of taste or smell
    • Sore throat
    • Congestion or runny nose
    • Nausea or vomitting
    • Diarrhea
  • Are you isolating or quarantining because you tested postive for COVID-19 or are worried that you may be sick with COVID-19?
  • Have you been in close physical contact in the last 14 days with:
    • Anyone who is known to have laboratory confirmed COVID-19?
    • Anyone who has symptoms consistent with COVID-19?

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/operation-strategy.html#fully-vacc
https://covid19.ca.gov/safely-reopening/#continuing-safety-measures
https://healthydavistogether.org/testing/