Facts: Marta & Hannah met on their after-school softball team in Western MA. Their team never won a game, but they did do the bunny hop in the outfield.

Marta Mozelle MacRostie (Performer/Designer) is a puppeteer, clown and maker based in NYC.

Please Ship This Wet Gift was selected for mentorship in the New Victory Theater's LabWorks program (Associate Artist Production), and was realized with the support of a KO Theater Festival rehearsal grant, and two residencies at Celebration Barn Theater in Maine. Please Ship’s 2023 tour was funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts. Marta's previous show for family audiences Help Save the Monkey! (with collaborator Liz Hara) premiered in the New York Children's Theater Festival, and was awarded a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant. Marta’s work for adults, Close to Decline, was workshopped in Labapalooza! at St. Ann's Warehouse, received support through a Jim Henson Foundation Presenter's Grant at the Tank Theater, and was a finalist for the Creative Capital Award. 

Marta's performance highlights include: Baby Universe (Wakka Wakka Productions, Studio Theater), Better Out Than In (Banksy's NYC Residency), La Divina Caricatura (Mabou Mines, PS 122 and La MaMa), Lemony Snicket's The Composer is Dead (Phantom Limb Company, Berkeley Rep), and Puss in Boots (Moises Kaufman, Gotham Chamber Opera & Blind Summit, New Victory Theater). She was a participant in Sesame Street's 2016 & 2014 Training Workshops, and her onscreen credits include: Sesame Street (season 45 assist), Time Machine Guitar, The Warby Trace Show, and commercials for H&M, LG, and the Coca-Cola Company.

Marta holds a degree in Puppetry & Music from UMass Amherst, studied clown at Movement Theater Studio, is a many-time alum of the O'Neill National Puppetry Conference, and served on the Artistic Direction Committee for the 2013 National Puppet Festival.

Hannah Simms (Director) is a director and teacher based in Hartford, CT. She is a graduate of the Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre, the NTI Advanced Directing Semester at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and the Ada Comstock Program at Smith College. Directing credits include: Pegao and Frog Hollow State of Mind (HartBeat Ensemble), To Kill a Mockingbird (Central Connecticut State University), Guenevere (Ivoryton Playhouse), Eurydice (PVPA Charter High School), Julius Cesar and Romeo & Juliet (Hampshire Shakespeare). She has also directed in the Write On! festival at Hartford Stage. Assistant Directing credits include The City That Cried Wolf off-Broadway at 59E59, and FlipSide at HartBeat Ensemble. She has taught clown for Art Farm, the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, and the Children's Circus of Middletown. Hannah is an ensemble member at HartBeat Ensemble.