Flood Sensor Aunty returns!

Flood Sensor Aunty is a devised play, that I wrote and directed, about a flood sensor working at her aunt’s chai shop who really wants to be a movie star. Halfway between really funny devised theater and culturally competent community disaster prevention for South Asian/Indo Caribbean communities, this show is about how the best way to protect yourself from flooding, climate change, and despair is through knowing your neighbors. In partnership with NYC Emergency Management, audiences leave nourished with bellies full of free oat milk chai, laughs, flood protection resources like flood alarms and headlamps, and calls to action. Check out coverage by Sam Maldonado at the CITY (!!!), the Queens Knight, and more.

After four crowded performances in September, we’re coming to ALL FIVE BOROUGHS for Earth Day 2025 - supported by partners like NYSCA, Rebuild by Design, the Billion Oyster Project, the Waterfront Alliance, Chhaya CDC, Queens College, Wellesley College, Fordham University, Snug Harbor, and more! Stay tuned for updates - but if you’re reading this - RSVP for free tickets here!

This show was created with help from a team of twenty community organizers, performers, devisers (partly performers with deep experience in movement and theater work and partly community organizers working and living in the neighborhoods we’re performing), designers, and more. After each performance, there will be a structured (daresay - scripted) talkback featuring a climate communications celebrity helping us host and give a call to action: Matthew Sookram from Chhaya CDC and Sanghu Iyer from the Department of Environmental Protection at Fordham University (BX), Michelle Bascome from Staten Island Nonprofit Coalition at Snug Harbor (SI), Furhana Husani from the Waterfront Alliance at Travers Park (QNS), Natalie Vena and Maansi Shah at Queens College, Jill Cornell from NYC Emergency Management and Cody Ann Herrmann from the Billion Oyster Project at Domino Square (BK), and Daphne Lundi at Orchard Alley Community Garden (MN).