Please Don’t Flush!
Tuesday, September 22, 6–8 pm
303 Bond Street, Brooklyn
Presented in conjunction with NYC Climate Week 2026, 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-
Before and after the performance, stop by resource tables hosted by Van Alen Institute, Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), NYC Emergency Management (NYCEM), Waterfront Alliance, Fifth Avenue Committee, the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, Field Form, and more.
About
Please Don’t Flush is created by Sabina Sethi Unni, a theater director, public artist, and community organizer dedicated to telling funny stories about crumbling infrastructure (and neighbors organizing to save it). Developed in deep partnership with NYCEM and the Waterfront Alliance, the performance pairs music and laughs with resources about flooding.
Please Don’t Flush is part of the Flood Sensor Aunty extended universe, a play which toured twenty public spaces across New York City, and was covered in Grist, NY1, the CITY, and more. This performance is supported by the Waterfront Alliance, NYCEM, and the Asian Women’s Giving Circle.
Team
Written and directed by: Sabina Sethi Unni
Performers: Ray Jordan Achan, Fahad Ahmad, Amr Kotb, Amar Bains, Kshithij Hegde, Jess Balgobin, Jill Cornell, Maribelle Flint, and Josabeth Simisterra
Music Director: Tom Lee
Sound Engineer: Maxi Glenn
Illustrator: Abbie Preston
Costume Designer: Zen Tunsaringkran
Press: Off Off Bway PR
Videographer: Max Czerski
Photographer: Jesse Herndon
Prop Fabrication: Caitlin Eder
The Tea Stand: Miles Kirsch