Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette

TV Writer | Bugs Bunny Builders, Madagascar: A Little Wild, Bossy Bear & more! | @hgse & @tuftsuniversity alum | Reps: Gotham | she/her 🦊🌿🍩🍂✨👻🎽✏️ sambwrites.com Los Angeles, CA Joined January 2011

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Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast

10 months ago

PBS Kids Animation writers deserve the same compensation as their live-action writer peers. In letters delivered to management across the negotiating table on 10/29, @PBS writers demanded management give them the respect - and union protections - they’ve earned. #UnionStrong

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Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast

11 months ago

Animation writers deserve the same protections and wages as their live-action colleagues! We’re fighting to get union coverage for PBS writers on shows like Molly of Denali and Cyberchase. #PBSWritersUnited #UnionStrong #1u

Nick “Rocket” Rodriguez (he/him) @NickRodriguez00

11 months ago

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Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast

a year ago

Send a letter to Sesame Workshop executives calling for a fair union contract before TOMORROW, April 19 ✊ actionnetwork.org/letters/suppor…

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Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast

a year ago

WGA members at Sesame Workshop are prepared to strike. 🪧 The unit voted UNANIMOUSLY - with 100% participation - to authorize a strike if management does not reach a fair new contract before their current agreement expires this Friday, April 19.

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Cassie Soliday @cassiesoliday

2 years ago

Loved working with Sam! With a head full of ideas and a kind heart, she'd be a great addition to any team. ✨

Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette

2 years ago

Loved working with Sam! With a head full of ideas and a kind heart, she'd be a great addition to any team. ✨

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Danielle Evenson (she/her) @praisecheeses

2 years ago

Sam is an amazing writer, teacher and collaborator! Also, it is basically the holidays.

Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette

2 years ago

Sam is an amazing writer, teacher and collaborator! Also, it is basically the holidays.

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Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette

2 years ago

✨I'm available for work! ✨Open to development, freelance, staff & story editor roles. Credits in preschool, bridge, & kids 6-11 in animation, & I've been developing a fun series at Mattel for a year+. Let's grab coffee so we can both nod and say "it's basically the holidays!"

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Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

Personal testimony from animation writer @sambissonnette on the expectations that studios have that freelancers come prepared, but without wanting to pay for it. #FreelanceNotFreeWork

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DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

2 years ago

The new WGA agreement can be viewed in full below, including new protections against AI, increase in streaming residuals, writer pay increases & much more. wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/s…

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Adam Conover @adamconover

2 years ago

We did it. We have a tentative deal. Over the coming days, we'll discuss and vote on it, together, as a democratic union. But today, I want to thank every single WGA member, and every fellow worker who stood with us in solidarity. You made this possible. Thank you. #WGAStrong

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Angela M. Sánchez @_AngelaMSanchez

2 years ago

A common misconception about #animation writers is that we get to be ✨CREATIVE✨ I am *commissioned* to write within my employer's guidelines. I have to take time to learn my employer's needs and universe. Reasonably, a contractor should charge for the time of this labor.

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Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette

2 years ago

I love writing for animation! I'm grateful to do what I love for a living. At the same time, it's undervalued. Animation writers do so much more than just open a blank page and type. We should be paid for all of the work we do to make a script great. #FreelanceNotFreeWork

Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

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Joey Clift @joeytainment

2 years ago

Something the WGA is fighting for is minimum writers room sizes. Here's a graphic showing the future if they don't get it. Most @animationguild shows are freelance only, with no minimum room sizes and the writers are suffering for it. #FreelanceNotFreeWork #PayAnimationWriters

Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

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Bill Wolkoff @flying_lobster

2 years ago

I‘ve said this before, we had to fight to get a writers room for Kipo. That was in 2017 & we got it. I had hoped that would be part of a trend of more writers rooms on animated shows but it turned out to be the opposite. We need to save writing as a career. #FreelanceNotFreeWork

Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

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Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

Pro tip! In The Animation Guild contract "freelance" is refered to as "unit rates." #FreelanceNotFreeWork

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Skylight Books @skylightbooks

2 years ago

At 7PM tonight! @RosannaXia of The Los Angeles Times presents her new book, CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA, with @LATstevelopez. Details here: skylightbooks.com/event/skylight…

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Rosanna Xia @RosannaXia

2 years ago

L.A. friends, come by @skylightbooks tonight for the launch of California Against the Sea!!

Skylight Books @skylightbooks

2 years ago

L.A. friends, come by @skylightbooks tonight for the launch of California Against the Sea!!

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Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters

2 years ago

What happens when writer's rooms stop staffing and turn to a freelance-only model? You guessed it, the writers lose out. Freelancers get paid half as much as what a staff writer makes for writing the EXACT same script. Check the numbers and spread the word. #FreelanceNotFreeWork