I am a theater director, public artist, and community organizer dedicated to telling funny stories about our crumbling infrastructure (and neighbors organizing to save it), recently covered in Grist, NY1, the CITY, Hyperallergic, A4’s the Amp, Culture Bot, and more.

Most recently, I wrote and directed Flood Sensor Aunty, a municipal comedy about a flood sensor desperate to become a movie star, but is keeping her aunt’s chai shop afloat from rain gods clogging the bathroom pipes and culturally (in)competent permit inspectors falling in love. Created in partnership with NYC Emergency Management (and dozens, I mean hundreds, of neighborhood-specific organizations), audiences left nourished with bellies full of chai, laughs, flood protection resources like flood alarms and headlamps, and calls to action. We toured 20+ public spaces like chai shops and boats and community gardens across all five boroughs of NYC, Mass, and Long Island. More on this soon…;)

Scroll through my website for an exhaustive list of past directing, but I’ll highlight Rainy Day Play, which I wrote and directed as an Artist in Residence at NYU Flood Net Center, Lunch Break, which I wrote and directed for Make the Road’s worker-organizers for their 300 person May Day Rally, and A Fun Play about how Scary Climate Change is, which I wrote and directed for the Queens Botanical Garden (and other waterfront spaces).

I’m the co-founder and artistic director of Fresh Lime Soda Productions, a contemporary South Asian political theater ensemble and incubator, a facilitator for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s Theater of Change workshop, and have taught about my work at Columbia, Pace, Temple, Barnard, Kansas State, Wellesley, Pratt, Hunter, the Queens Public Library, Arts + Democracy, the Johnson Justice Fellowship, NYCEM’s Symposium, and more. Feel free to peruse this (overly detailed but always under construction) website for more (self-indulgent) parentheticals or send a signal: unnisabina@gmail.com. ✺✺✺