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.
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: 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!
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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:
PhysFestNYC Presents: Broken Box Mime Theater
Broken Box Mime (BKBX) presents a best-of collection of original short stories told entirely through movement. Set to rich lighting and a heart-thumping soundtrack, our narratives range from realistic to metaphorical, heart-wrenching to hilarious, and cinematic to intimate, held together by a dedication to the empowered imagination and the collective artistic voice of our diverse company. Based in NYC and founded in 2011, we reimagine French pantomime through the lens of contemporary US-American theater. The 20 artists in our company devise the artwork in a highly collaborative process. They are diverse in race, gender, sexual orientation, training, background, mental health identity, and writing style. They come from Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, New Zealand, NYC, and hometowns across the US.
PhysFestNYC Presents: Broken Box Mime Theater
Broken Box Mime (BKBX) presents a best-of collection of original short stories told entirely through movement. Set to rich lighting and a heart-thumping soundtrack, our narratives range from realistic to metaphorical, heart-wrenching to hilarious, and cinematic to intimate, held together by a dedication to the empowered imagination and the collective artistic voice of our diverse company. Based in NYC and founded in 2011, we reimagine French pantomime through the lens of contemporary US-American theater. The 20 artists in our company devise the artwork in a highly collaborative process. They are diverse in race, gender, sexual orientation, training, background, mental health identity, and writing style. They come from Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, New Zealand, NYC, and hometowns across the US.
PhysFestNYC Presents: Broken Box Mime Theater
Broken Box Mime (BKBX) presents a best-of collection of original short stories told entirely through movement. Set to rich lighting and a heart-thumping soundtrack, our narratives range from realistic to metaphorical, heart-wrenching to hilarious, and cinematic to intimate, held together by a dedication to the empowered imagination and the collective artistic voice of our diverse company. Based in NYC and founded in 2011, we reimagine French pantomime through the lens of contemporary US-American theater. The 20 artists in our company devise the artwork in a highly collaborative process. They are diverse in race, gender, sexual orientation, training, background, mental health identity, and writing style. They come from Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, New Zealand, NYC, and hometowns across the US.
PhysFestNYC Presents: Broken Box Mime Theater
Broken Box Mime (BKBX) presents a best-of collection of original short stories told entirely through movement. Set to rich lighting and a heart-thumping soundtrack, our narratives range from realistic to metaphorical, heart-wrenching to hilarious, and cinematic to intimate, held together by a dedication to the empowered imagination and the collective artistic voice of our diverse company. Based in NYC and founded in 2011, we reimagine French pantomime through the lens of contemporary US-American theater. The 20 artists in our company devise the artwork in a highly collaborative process. They are diverse in race, gender, sexual orientation, training, background, mental health identity, and writing style. They come from Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, Turkey, New Zealand, NYC, and hometowns across the US.
My Little Eye: A Kids Show About Climate And The Earth
My Little Eye: A Show about Climate & The Earth
For kids ages 2-6 and their families!
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.
This show is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. First commission by the Alliance Francaise, image credit Alliance Francaise. Performed on the traditional lands of the Lenape people.
Durational Installation
Join Broken Box Mime as we kick off PhysFest NYC 2025 with a durational Installation experience drawn from our repertoire of work. This free experience serves as a compliment to the ticketed events of the evening: Parallel Exit and Koal.
PhysFestNYC 2025
BKBX’s Physical Theater festival is back for YEAR TWO! Check out all the offerings at PhysFestNYC.org and buy tickets for each show HERE!
Black & White Ball 2024
It's that time of year! Join the BKBX community for an evening of dance, drinks, eats, performances, honorees, and fundraising to celebrate BKBX past, present, and future.
This year we are at the 14Y Theatre on 14th and 1st in Manhattan! Perfect for a highlight of BKBX favorites lit by resident Lighting Designer Jamie Roderick.
Wear your best black and white, and meet us on the 19th! Thursday never looked so good.
$40 tickets HERE!
ASL interpretation present // Access needs? Contact us! // Wheelchair accessible // Ball photos by Bjorn Bolinder
PS: Looking for a way to support BKBX and get an end-of-year gift? Check out our auction HERE!
Physical Storytelling: Class Show
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(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 December.
SMALL TALK in Massachusetts
Broken Box Mime partners with Newton Theatre Company in Newton, Massachusetts, to present SMALL TALK: A Show About How (And Why!) We Tell Stories in Mime.
In SMALL TALK, the cast will present several of our favorite non-speaking narratives, skipping across genres and celebrating the limitless possibilities of physical storytelling. The show will interweave spoken descriptions of how the art was made by Artistic Director and Newtonite Becky Baumwoll, offering audiences a look behind the curtain - or beyond the box, as it were.
Appropriate for all ages! Tickets $15 adult, $10 kid, free for under 5. No one turned away for lack of funds. Running time: approximately one hour.
This show is made possible with support from Newton Theatre Company and the Newton Cultural Council!
Cast: Becky Baumwoll, Tia Cassmira, Ismael Castillo, David Jenkins, Tasha Milkman, Jae Woo
INSEKT
BKBX makes our debut at Tufts University!
…Did you just see something move? Broken Box Mime Theater presents INSEKT, a show about seemingly small things that make a big stir. Without a single spoken word, stories will stretch from absurdist comedy to poetic drama, from exoskeletons to the skeletons of our exes. A pop idol sheds his skin, a tween transforms through love, and a cockroach meets her match. Gregor Samsaa could never.
TICKETS FREE with RSVP HERE
NOVEMBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In November, you can catch us in a new plot-driven, genre-rich narrative at a beloved venue, the Theater at 14Y on 14th St and 1st in Manhattan. Cast: Géraldine Dulex, Duane cooper, Tia Cassmira, Jae Woo, Marissa Molnar, Blake Habermann, and Julia Cavagna. Music by Jack McGuire, Lights by Yang Yu. Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
NOVEMBER: New Works in Development
In moving toward our next 2025 Mainstage debut, BKBX will be performing two new works in progress shows this fall! Join us for the last Monday and Tuesday of each month this October and November. We have split into two cohorts, each cooking up new ideas to share with you. In November, you can catch us in a new plot-driven, genre-rich narrative at a beloved venue, the Theater at 14Y on 14th St and 1st in Manhattan. Cast: Géraldine Dulex, Duane cooper, Tia Cassmira, Jae Woo, Marissa Molnar, Blake Habermann, and Julia Cavagna. Music by Jack McGuire, Lights by Yang Yu. Stick around for the casual post-show Sip n’ Chat to keep the conversation going. Join us!
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(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 December.
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
(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 December.
This class is open to students of all experience levels.
To sign up for this class, click here.
See, Move, and Imagine
Join Broken Box Mime on an invisible adventure! A speaking host will guide even the youngest theater-goers through an afternoon of physical storytelling with NYC's favorite mimes. The cast will perform three different non-speaking stories, each taking place in wonderful and wild locations. After the show, we’ll teach kids how to mime from their seats and take questions from the crowd on how we make art with our bodies.
No registration required. Designed for lower elementary and their families, but all ages welcome.
Audience: Children, Pre-schoolers (3-5 years), School Age (5-12 years), Families, Parents/Caregivers
ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.
Physical Storytelling: Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime
Crafting Comedy Through the Lens of Mime w/ Broken Box Mime Theater
(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 December.
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: