Sam Bissonnette

TV Writer | Bugs Bunny Builders, Madagascar: A Little Wild, Bossy Bear & more! | @hgse & @tuftsuniversity alum | Reps: Gotham | she/her 🦊🌿🍩🍂✨👻🎽✏️

[Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette]

I'm Sam! I was a staff writer on Madagascar: A Little Wild (DreamWorks) & Bugs Bunny Builders (WB) & freelance writer on many others: (Baby Shark, Mecha Builders, Polly Pocket, etc). Help us continue to make shows you & your littles love! #StandWithAnimation
@animationguild

[The Animation Guild // #WeAre839 @animationguild]

Let’s remind everyone that their favorite animation is made by us—human animation workers! Post a pic or illustration of yourself, include your job & favorite series or movies you’ve worked on & tag TAG so we can share! Thanks Hannah Partlow for this graphic. #StandWithAnimation

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

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

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

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

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

Send a letter to Sesame Workshop executives calling for a fair union contract before TOMORROW, April 19 ✊ https://t.co/T9XvpGBzMH

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

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.

[Cassie Soliday @cassiesoliday]

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]

@cassiesoliday :') ty Cassie!! Let's catch up soon!

[Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette]

@praisecheeses Hahaha thank you for the repost, Danielle! Would love to catch up with you ladies soon!

[Danielle Evenson (she/her) @praisecheeses]

Sam is an amazing writer, teacher and collaborator!

Also, it is basically the holidays.

[Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette]

✨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!"

[Animation Guild Writers @TAGwriters]

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

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new WGA agreement can be viewed in full below, including new protections against AI, increase in streaming residuals, writer pay increases & much more. https://t.co/BxzptNecMO

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

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

[Angela M. Sánchez @_AngelaMSanchez]

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.

[Sam Bissonnette @sambissonnette]

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]

Writing a freelance script is JUST AS MUCH, if note MORE, work than writing a script while staffed. So why are we making so much less doing it?? Charge for prep work and negotiate above minimums! Studios need to pays us for the work we do. #FreelanceNotFreeWork

[Joey Clift @joeytainment]

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

[Bill Wolkoff @flying_lobster]

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]

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

[Skylight Books @skylightbooks]

At 7PM tonight! @RosannaXia of The Los Angeles Times presents her new book, CALIFORNIA AGAINST THE SEA, with @LATstevelopez. Details here: https://t.co/5FmLKUCJSw

[Rosanna Xia @RosannaXia]

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