Please Don’t Flush
Please Don’t Flush is a municipal comedy about a community board scheduled to vote on a mysterious waterfront development that neighbors and seagulls and plumbers are worried will increase inland flooding. Instead, the board is derailed by planning their bi-annual gala, celebrating their second-vice-chair’s half birthday, and locking the anti-anti-anti-anti-development coalition in the bathroom. Developed in deep partnership with NYC Emergency Management, we toured public spaces across the city with music, laughs, and resources about flooding climate week 2026 with coverage in Gothamist, APA, Broadway World, and more.
Supported by existing and new partners like New York City Emergency Management, the Waterfront Alliance, the Department of Environmental Protection, Queens Memory Project, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, South Queens Women’s March, the 149th South Ozone Park Civic Association, Chhaya CDC, Staten Island Urban Center, Nonprofit Staten Island, Staten Island Community Partnerships, Youth Wins Staten Island, 5 Boro Restoration, Asian Women’s Giving Fund, and more!
📍 Queens Botanical Garden, Baisley Pond Park, Staten Island Urban Center, & Van Alen
Written and directed by: YOURS TRULY!
Performers: Ray Jordan Achan, Fahad Ahmad, Amr Kotb, Amar Bains, Kshithij Hegde, Jess Balgobin, Jill Cornell, Maribelle Flint, Josabeth Simisterra, and George Copeland
Music Director: Tom Lee
Sound Engineer: Maxi Glen
Illustrator: Abbie Preston
Costume Designer: Zen Tunsaringkran
Press: Off Off Bway PR
Videographer: Max Czerski & Shreya Suresh
Photographer: Jesse Herndon, Cameron Blaylock, Horacio Rojas, and Walter Wlodyak
Prop Fabrication: Caitlin Eder
The Tea Stand: Miles Kirsch
