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Search every verified Anne Sweeney interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Anne Sweeney, a board member at Netflix and the Mayo Clinic, has been involved in a range of activities. In December 2024, she participated in a conversation about climate theater, where she discussed her work as a playwright and co-runner of Wise Ram Theatre, focusing on climate-themed workshops and productions. She described her approach to making climate work that is not "so obviously moralistic" and encouraged creators to "follow the things you really love" rather than assuming climate stories must be dark or didactic. In a separate 2022 appearance before a school board, Sweeney, who identified herself as a substitute teacher, advocated for the inclusion of the Bible in classrooms, stating that the "founding fathers found it imperative to have a full knowledge of the bible as imperative to a quality education." She also criticized a teacher's comments about gender, saying, "I'm part of the society that is not what I teach my kids at all." Earlier in her career, Sweeney served as co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney-ABC Television Group. In a 2021 panel, she discussed the future of entertainment, predicting that of the roughly 200 streaming services, only those that "super-serve their viewers" would survive. She also noted that "non-US shows should first resonate in their home territory," citing *Squid Game* as an example. Sweeney has also spoken about her role as the first Roald Dahl specialist nurse in the UK, describing it as a "real privilege" and emphasizing the importance of supporting families of children with epilepsy.
“I'm Molly Anini, I'm a playwright, a theatre facilitator and I co-run a theatre company called Wise Ram Theatre.”
“We run regular workshops at the Glitch Park in Waterloo and also workshops in the community and with children and young people and students at universities about climate theatre.”
“We do drama games using climate terms — we've adapted projects like The Fast and the Furious so that all of the characters were on bikes instead of cars.”
“People don't have to be professional theatre makers or climate activists — they just have to be interested in the ideas.”
“For an early work-in-progress performance I bought two items of set from Ikea and thought, 'I'm going to play about climate change and I've just done that' — it made me think we should be more conscious about sustainability.”
“When we make climate theatre we start from a place of curiosity and playfulness and want to try all sorts of different stories — a romantic comedy, a thriller, something weird — rather than focusing solely on a didactic message.”
“There's a real sense that a lot of climate work is child-focused — recycling stories for young ages — but we want to make work that isn't so obviously moralistic and can reach other audiences.”
“I open the play with a teacher lecturing 10-year-olds about climate change — I was anxious about lecturing the audience, but starting there plays with that zone and sets up the rest of the story.”
“Being human is about making jokes, being silly, making mistakes and laughing — climate change is about humans, so you can't not have those things in the work.”
“Follow the things you really love as a creator — if you love absurdist theatre, anime, or romantic comedy, make the climate show you want; don't assume it has to be dark or didactic.”
“I saw a sixth grade teacher ... she said 'we the society want to blur the lines between gender' and went on to say that they're waiting for the older generation to die off. I'm part of the society that is not what I teach my kids at all.”
“Teachers need to be monitored because I heard a lot of your teachers saying that they couldn't have specific books in the classroom. This is a book that has been contested for thousands of years, but you'll be very hard-pressed to find this on any shelf in your libraries — so why is this book gone?”
“This is a collection of 66 books written by 40 different authors ... over the period of 1500 years and there's barely a contradiction in it. My degree is in this study and I would bet my life on this.”
“I thank the deep equity program because I went back to the original founding fathers of this country, particularly Dr. Rush, and a lot of the founding fathers found it imperative to have a full knowledge of the Bible as imperative to a quality education.”
“If you look in this statue the Bible and faith is all over this statue ... the founding principles of freedom in this statue in case America lost her way.”
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