Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure, Excerpt Reading and Q&A with BAC Artist-in-Residence Playwright La Daniella 

Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure, Excerpt Reading and Q&A
with BAC Artist-in-Residence Playwright La Daniella 
Date & Time: Saturday, November 2, 2024 2 – 3:30PM

In this puppet-musical, Gooey, a very lonely mermaid, makes an unlikely friend in a rude, mangy rat named Scabby. Together they set out on a journey to the Gowanus Canal, a land of trash and opportunity, where the two friends get mixed up in some very unfriendly (un)organized crime.  

The playwright and lead actor/puppeteer, La Daniella, will be reading an excerpt from the play followed by a Q&A with the audience. Please bring in any questions you may have about puppetry, the development of this piece or creating original/your own work! For ages high school and up.  

About La Daniella
La DANIELLA (she/her) is a performer, playwright, puppeteer and teaching artist falling back in love with herself. Her work has been supported by The Public Theater, Bushwick Starr, New York Theater Workshop, The New Group Offstage, Barrington Stage Company and San Diego Repertory Theater. Her play “Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back (FKA Columbus Play)” won the 2020 Burman New Play Award and was a finalist for the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She’s a member of The Public Theater’s 2018-19 Emerging Writers Group, was a staff writer on the upcoming narrative podcast “FLIPPED!” (produced by echoverse and Neal Baer) and acts as a story consultant on the upcoming one-man show, “The Illio Snow Story” (written and performed by rapper Civil). As an actress, she is best known for her role as Zirconia on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black”. La Daniella is a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.

This event is a Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner