PhysFestNYC Presents: Please Ship This Wet Gift

Please Ship This Wet Gift is one clown's presentation about terrible feelings, and provides an opportunity for audiences to laugh together about feeling bad. Everyone can go home when she thinks you're prepared! (because it's better if you're prepared.) (and she'll be the guy who prepared you.) This original work uses audience suggestion & participation, drawing, made-up songs, puppetry, and cardboard sharks to explore dealing with the things in life that are unfair, scary, sad, and just really annoying. The show melds smarty-pants clown theater with expert puppetry to bring compassion and lightness to the heavy stuff. recommended for adults who like really good shows and feelings, and kids ages 4+

Marta Mozelle MacRostie (Performer/Designer) is a puppeteer, clown and builder based in NYC. Her previous show for family audiences Help Save the Monkey! (with collaborator Liz Hara) premiered in the New York Children's Theater Festival, and was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant. Marta has worked with Phantom Limb Co, Mabu Mines, and Wakka Wakka Productions, and has some fancy credits that include Sesame Street, and performances at the Kennedy Center, the New Victory Theater, and some really nice libraries.

Hannah Simms (Director) is a director and teacher based in Hartford, CT, where she is an ensemble member at HartBeat Ensemble. She is a graduate of the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre, the NTI Advanced Directing Semester at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the Ada Comstock Program at Smith College.

Marta & Hannah met on their after-school softball team in Western MA. Their team never won a game, but they did do the bunny hop in the outfield.

Brave Bucket makes original puppet and/or clown theater for adult and family audiences. Our work has received support from the Jim Henson Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebration Barn Theater, and the New Victory Theater. We use a wide range of puppetry and physical performance styles to further storytelling, talk about feelings, and have a lot of fun.

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PhysFestNYC is a community-focused festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theaters. As an annual gathering, provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events.

Broken Box Mime Theater's mission is to activate the imagination of our audiences, contemporize the art of mime, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.