PhysFestNYC Workshop: Bringing Nature to the Stage

Bringing Nature to the Stage led by Lake Simons

Can a puppeteer be Mother Nature? How can we create the theatrical illusion of flooding waters, high winds, and raging fire by using paper, plastic, and other materials? Endlessly inventive physical theater artist and puppeteer, Lake Simons, will lead a workshop in movement and object manipulation exploring how to bring the natural world to the stage.

Lake Simons (she/her) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in New York City. Lake is a director, designer, choreographer, puppeteer, builder, painter, & physical performer. She makes theatre productions that utilizes puppetry, movement, & live music. Lake is a co-director for the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and is the Managing Artistic Director of the Hip Pocket Theatre (Texas) where she also contributes as a director, performer, & designer. Lake launched their Cowtown Puppetry Festival in 2003 bringing NYC artists to Fort Worth to perform & teach puppetry workshops. She teaches in the theatre department at Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud recipient of multiple Jim Henson Foundation Grants: Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, White Elephant, Wind Set-up, Tree Pop, & Sorry About the Weather.

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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.