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Mêlisa Annis
@melisaannis.bsky.social
Playwright, Director, Producer
Cymru (Wales) to New York.
NYU adjunct. Proud ACT-UAW 7902 Union Member.
www.melisaannis.com
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Plaid Cymru has returned to winning ways at the ballot box after winning a seat on Pembrokeshire County Council that it hadn’t contested since 2004 ✍️Martin Shipton
Plaid Cymru gains seat from Labour in Pembrokeshire by-election
Martin Shipton Plaid Cymru has returned to winning ways at the ballot box after winning a seat on Pembrokeshire County Council that it hadn’t contested since 2004. Billy Shaw, the current Mayor of Fis...
nation.cymru
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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The freedom to form a union is essential to a democratic society.
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I loved the halftime show!
💃❤️🏈
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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A new stage drama detailing how two women in a workhouse recorded and preserved Welsh folk songs is set to tour the country this Spring
Workhouse effort to save Welsh folk songs inspires new stage drama
A new stage drama detailing how two women in a workhouse recorded and preserved Welsh folk songs is set to tour the country this Spring. Ledi’r Wyrcws (The Lady of the Workhouse), a production by Gale...
wp.me
February 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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🚨 STATEMENT FROM UAW PRESIDENT SHAWN FAIN ON THE KILLING OF ALEX PRETTI 🚨

“The UAW stands in solidarity with the family and loved ones of our fallen union brother Alex Pretti and all those standing up for justice in Minneapolis and beyond.
January 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
US Theatre Visa Issues: They believe it’s because two of the actors in the cast, who are British citizens, were born in Nigeria. The Olympics and World Cup are going to be great fun. 👇🏻
📣 Quarantine's 12 LAST SONGS performance is cancelled this weekend at @lamamaetc.bsky.social in NYC because several company members visas are still not approved. In case you are wondering how international theatre work is faring in the US' fash times
January 16, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Silly question… don’t these ice agents have body cameras? And if not, why not?
#ice
January 8, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Can you imagine if we in Wales said we said we wanted to kick anyone who said crazy (often racist) and hurtful things about us out of the country, and stripped you of the right to return… Iesu you’d be angry.
#dyddiaudrwg
December 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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the sheer utter exhaustion of living in a collapsing society in a crumbling planet during an ongoing pandemic without a social safety net of any kind.
December 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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"in the targeted attention economy which pits art forms against each other for audience consumption, one sees how people are segmented and fragmented into monolithic groups whose only power is the one of purchase."
today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre's attention market. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
December 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Thank you to everyone who went out and worked to get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social elected. Thank you!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Six international artists will exhibit new and major works across Wales next year as part of the eleventh edition of the UK’s leading contemporary art prize, Artes Mundi
Artes Mundi 11 brings major international art to Welsh venues
Six international artists will exhibit new and major works across Wales next year as part of the eleventh edition of the UK’s leading contemporary art prize, Artes Mundi. Artes Mundi 11, presented in ...
wp.me
October 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Gosh. I look back at January…
Then February… March….

October, 2025.
How far we’ve come.
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It’s a very strange feeling being an immigrant writer in the US right now. Fear hangs on every word.
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎭
October 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Look at that huge jump in Trump's wealth in 2025.

Americans can't afford groceries or health care.

But the Trump presidency is working out great for Donald Trump.

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
September 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
More evidence of our collective paralysis.
The children who survived the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday are now part of a group that numbers nearly 400,000: America’s children who have been exposed to gun violence at school.
Survivors of Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting Face Long Road Ahead
Children who survive school shootings deal with a host of complex feelings, ranging from anxiety and grief to guilt and shame.
nyti.ms
August 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Apparently, the economy is doing great. Yet the line keeps growing at the free-food pantry on my corner. #Brooklyn
August 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This outfit.
Brian Tyree Henry has arrived to the #MetGala

#fashionsky
May 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM