La Daniella: Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure

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In-person event
Location: Morse Auditorium

Included with admission

Contains adult content. Recommended for ages 12 and up.

Join PEM Presents for a puppet musical about self-discovery, friendship and late-stage capitalism. Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure is written and performed by La Daniella, an AfroDominican/Nuyorican playwright, actor and puppeteer from Brooklyn.

In a near apocalyptic New York City, Gooey Pudín is an insecure mermaid from a sewage-filled creek in search of a better life and gainful employment at G’wond’rLand Theme Park. Along the way, Gooey encounters a smart-mouthed, streetwise rat named Scabby, an animated suitcase, a radical socialist parakeet, a couple of wiseguys and the truth of how she came to be and where she comes from.

Gooey’s Toxic Aquatic Adventure will have its world premiere at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn in February 2026.

La Daniella (Book and lyrics)

Ben Langhorst (Lyrics and music)

Sammy Zeisel (Direction)