Double Take
DOUBLE TAKE weaves together six BKBX stories that, each in their own way, encourage us to look closer, think again, and delight in the unexpected. The 50-minute wordless performance is performed by a cast of two, with live music by BKBX resident collaborator Jack McGuire.
DOUBLE TAKE will run for two nights only at Stella Adler Center for the Arts in tandem with their Summer Physical Theatre Lab led by Bill Bowers.
DOUBLE TAKE debuted at the Adelaide Fringe in March and will head to Edinburgh in August. Stick around after the show to give us your thoughts and feedback!
This is our first ever rotating cast project, presenting the same show with three different pairs of artists. See one cast or stick around for both at a discounted price:
Wednesday 6/25
7pm show will be performed by Becky Baumwoll & Tasha Milkman
8:30pm show will be performed by Kristin McCarthy Parker & Julia Cavagna
Thursday 6/26
7pm show will be performed by Becky Baumwoll & Tasha Milkman
8:30pm show will be performed by Blake Habermann & Tia Cassmira
Poster image by Alley Scott of Dutch Kills Theater Company, who presented Double Take in Adelaide and will present it in the Edinburgh Fringe at Zoo in the summer of 2025.
TICKETS HERE
Double Take
DOUBLE TAKE weaves together six BKBX stories that, each in their own way, encourage us to look closer, think again, and delight in the unexpected. The 50-minute wordless performance is performed by a cast of two, with live music by BKBX resident collaborator Jack McGuire.
DOUBLE TAKE will run for two nights only at Stella Adler Center for the Arts in tandem with their Summer Physical Theatre Lab led by Bill Bowers.
DOUBLE TAKE debuted at the Adelaide Fringe in March and will head to Edinburgh in August. Stick around after the show to give us your thoughts and feedback!
This is our first ever rotating cast project, presenting the same show with three different pairs of artists. See one cast or stick around for both at a discounted price:
Wednesday 6/25
7pm show will be performed by Becky Baumwoll & Tasha Milkman
8:30pm show will be performed by Kristin McCarthy Parker & Julia Cavagna
Thursday 6/26
7pm show will be performed by Becky Baumwoll & Tasha Milkman
8:30pm show will be performed by Blake Habermann & Tia Cassmira
Poster image by Alley Scott of Dutch Kills Theater Company, who presented Double Take in Adelaide and will present it in the Edinburgh Fringe at Zoo in the summer of 2025.
TICKETS HERE
Small Talk @ The 53rd St Library
Join us for a free all-ages show at the 53rd St library in midtown!
We are delighted to be back at the 53rd Street Library with Small Talk. We’ll perform some of our favorite nonverbal narratives in a variety of genres, celebrating the limitless possibilities of physical storytelling. The show features a speaking emcee, who gives spoken descriptions of how the art was made, offering audiences a look behind the curtain - or beyond the box, as it were.
Appropriate for all ages!
No rsvp required.
Family Day @ PAC NYC
PAC NYC brings together families and artists to take over the day with indoor and outdoor workshops, performances, interactive creation stations, dance battles, live music, and more.
All-Levels Weekend Intensive with BKBX
Saturday July 19 & Sunday July 20 at Mercury Store, Brooklyn
Lead Teacher: Becky Baumwoll
Cost: $300
Need-based scholarships and caregiver reimbursements available; email us!
The summer is for learning! Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites folks of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in a US-American narrative style, participants will spend the weekend learning about body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can these concepts expand our artistry? Our curiosity? Our awareness of physical communication?
This intensive is open to students of all experience levels. Past students of BKBX welcome. Varied access needs welcome; please email us at brokenboxmime@gmail.com should you need an interpreter or any other accommodation, and/or note it in this form where instructed!
The two-day intensive will include:
Technique foundations, including establishing invisible objects and physical precision
Establishing environment, character, and relationship without words
Cinematic techniques onstage: transformations in Time, Scale, and Space
The body as storyteller: writing and staging wordless narratives as an ensemble
About the Weekend:
The full weekend is $300. Need-based scholarships are available, email us at brokenboxmime@gmail.com for more info.
Participants should be available for the full duration of the intensive.
Sessions will run 10a - 12:30p and 1:30p - 4p daily with a 1h lunch break.
Participants provide or buy their own lunch, there will be a kitchen/fridge available at Mercury Store.
*On the payment page, click on either day to purchase your spot; you will automatically be signed up for both days.*
PhysFestNYC Satellite Sunday
PhysFestNYC Satellite Sunday
Our 2025 Festival closed with a joyful bang in January, featuring the work of over 180 artists and issuing over 1500 tickets. Now, thanks to the vision of our community, this year we don't have to wait until winter to reconveine!
PhysFestNYC will be taking over the theaters at Stella Adler for a day full of free programming and community connection. RSVP here for any or all of the events so we can plan our turnout. All access needs welcome, please email us with 3 day's notice if you request any specific services. The space is ADA accessible. For a visual guide on how to get into the building, check out our Access page at physfestnyc.org/access.
Schedule of the day, come to any or all!:
11 - 12:30 Family Play Time
Becky and Mark will lead a suite of physical theater games for kids and their grownups! No experience necessary. Come play.
1 - 2:30 - Community Potluck Lunch & Toast
Bring your favorite dish, and a label for what's in it! Some light networking-style offerings will allow you to connect with fellow artists and audiences. See old friends and make new ones!
2:30 - 3:45 - The Match Series
Three pairs of artists set up on "artistic blind dates" by PhysFestNYC will share what they learned from each other in a facilitated show-and-tell discussion.
4:00 - 5:15 - Open Mic!
Check out what the artists of our community are working on! Slots will be 5 minutes long, and half of sign-ups will occur in person at Stella Adler starting at 11am. Want to sign up in advance to guarantee your spot? Fill out any remaining empty slot here: Open Mic June 2025 Sign-up Sheet
5:30 - 7 - Dance Party
End the day with some socializing in a chill party atmosphere. Connect with each other, discuss the day's events, and dream up what's next. Yes, there shall be dancing!
Physical Storytelling LVL 1: Class Show
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Fridays)
Join us as we showcase the work from our 5-Week Workshop. Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invited artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants looked at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students crafted mime pieces that will be shared in this final showing in April.
Physical Storytelling LVL 2: Class Show
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
Physical Storytelling LEVEL 2: Ensemble Devising
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
Physical Storytelling LEVEL 2: Ensemble Devising
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
11:45am-12:30pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop for K-3 and their families
More info at:
Physical Storytelling LEVEL 2: Ensemble Devising
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
11:45am-12:30pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop for K-3 & family
More info at:
Physical Storytelling LEVEL 2: Ensemble Devising
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
11:45am-12:30pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop for K-3 & family
More info at:
Physical Storytelling LEVEL 2: Ensemble Devising
Level 2 of this curriculum is a CREATION WORKSHOP, focusing on devising, clarity in storytelling, and ensemble staging! If you have any experience in mime (a BKBX class or anything else), you'll be all set to join. We'll drill our mime skills too, of course.
My Little Eye @ QUeens botanical garden
My Little Eye: A Show about Climate & The Earth with Broken Box Mime Theater
Queens Botanical Garden
Follow our speaking emcee (who might be…a caterpillar?!) as she guides us through the mimes’ silent stories and interactive games. What is climate change? What big feelings come up around big changes of any kind? Audiences will leave with an activated imagination, and a reminder of how powerful we are when we all work together. Tickets HERE
This performance is part of a two-Borough tour of My Little Eye on Saturday! In the morning we'll be at L'Alliance!
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
More info at:
My Little Eye @ L'Alliance
My Little Eye: A Show about Climate & The Earth with Broken Box Mime Theater
L’Alliance Skyroom, L'Alliance Francaise, 22 East 60th Street NYC
Follow our speaking emcee (who might be…a caterpillar?!) as she guides us through the mimes’ silent stories and interactive games. What is climate change? What big feelings come up around big changes of any kind? Audiences will leave with an activated imagination, and a reminder of how powerful we are when we all work together. Tickets HERE
This performance is part of a two-Borough tour of My Little Eye on Saturday! In the afternoon we'll be at the Queens Botanical Garden!
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
More info at:
Physical Storytelling: Class Show
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Join us as we showcase the work from our 5-Week Workshop. Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invited artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants looked at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students crafted mime pieces that will be shared in this final showing in April.
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater @ BCC
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in April.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
More info at:
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater @ BCC
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in April.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
More info at:
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater @ BCC
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in April.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater @ BCC
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in April.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Family Saturdays at FIAF - Silent Storytelling Workshops for Kids!
Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!
11:45am-12:30pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)
1:30pm-2:15pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
More info at:
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater @ BCC
(5-Week Workshop, Sundays)
Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) invites artists of all backgrounds to join in exploring the audience's imagination as medium. From the perspective of BKBX's unique brand of mime based in American narrative style, participants will look at body language, basic mime technique, staging metaphor, efficiency in storytelling, and devised process. How can precision, efficiency, and specificity in physical storytelling help to craft our comedy? Over the course of the series, students will craft mime pieces that will be shared in a final showing in April.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
Double Take @ Adelaide Fringe
Two mimes weave together ten narratives of varying lengths and tones in a modern take on Mime. Two of NYC's favorite silent storytellers, Tasha Milkman (AUS/USA) and Becky Baumwoll (USA), bring audiences on an epic journey from a bus stop to a mid-flight superhero, passing by a time-traveling love story and returning to a hometown lake at sunset.
"Double Take" celebrates the immense storytelling capacity of the body, stretch the imagination, and remind us all of the power of simple storytelling.