Puppetry meets clowning in this interactive production to bring empathy, laughter, and lightness to the heavy stuff! The audience will help out a helmet-wearing clown as she gives a “presentation” about her terrible feelings, using made-up songs, drawings, puppetry, and cardboard sharks. We'll all work together so we’re a little more prepared for those big feelings that inevitably come our way.

All ages welcome, recommended for 4+
Clowning, with object performance

About the Artist

Marta Mozelle MacRostie (Performer/Designer) is a puppeteer, clown, designer and builder based in NYC. Marta's previous work for family audiences Help Save the Monkey! (with collaborator Liz Hara) premiered in the 2014 New York Children's Theater Festival, and was awarded a 2014 Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant. She holds a degree in Puppetry & Music from UMass Amherst, studied clown at Movement Theater Studio, and is a many-time alum of the O'Neill National Puppetry Conference.

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 afterschool softball team in Amherst, MA. Their team never won a game, but they did do the bunny hop in the outfield.