Travel, Housing, and Transportation Info
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Seattle Ground Transportation
Need a lift to the Moisture Festival? A fantastic team of volunteers can help with your Festival related transportation needs. If you need someone to pick you up at the airport and take you to your accommodation, we can do that. If you need a ride to the venue for your show, we can do that. Do you want a ride to check out Pike Place Market? Then Seattle is very well serviced by ride-share providers such as Uber and Lyft. There is also a good and rapidly improving public transport network.
Pick up and Drop off services
The Moisture Festival can pick you up, and drop you off, at your transportation terminal (airport, train, ferry, bus, etc.) and take you to your local accommodations. If you need to be taken to any location other than your accommodations, we cannot guarantee to get you to them beyond the one stop. We can only deliver props to the venue by special arrangements with the venue management.
If the Moisture Festival is providing transportation to Seattle, please let the person making those arrangements know if you will need a pick up and drop off services, also let them know if you will need shuttle services to the show. Someone from the transportation team will contact you to make the final arrangements.
Shuttle service
This service gets performers from their local accommodations to the venue for their shows and back afterward. The Transportation Coordinator works from a list of performers for each show that have notified the Moisture Festival that they need rides to the show. The Transportation Coordinator will contact performers a few hours before the show to arrange their pick up time. Pick up times will vary depending on how many performers need rides. If you didn’t request a shuttle ride to the show when your transportation was arranged into Seattle, contact the Transportation team at least one day in advance to be added to the list.
Contacting the Transportation Team
The Transportation Coordinators are LJ & Robin Purtee. LJ is primarily the dispatch coordinator and Robin is the on-site coordinator. Email is the preferred method of contacting either of them.
transportation@moisturefestival.org
If you need answers right away, then call us
- LJ Purtee: 206-850-5957
- Robin Purtee: 206-818-0573
HELPFUL LINKS
Seattle Area Public Transit:
King County Metro (Buses)
Link Light Rail
Tourism:
Visiting Seattle
Seattle Housing
The Moisture Festival houses out of town performers in the guest rooms of neighbors in the community. We work to match you with the best possible host for a comfortable and seamless stay. We will only be able to provide housing for performers who are booked to perform at the festival.
If you need the Moisture Festival to arrange for housing accommodations in one of our host homes, please contact our housing coordinator Susan Miller at housing@moisturefestival.
If you are arranging your own housing, please send our Production Manager, David Williams (david@moisturefestival.org),
Airfare Booking
If you have been approved by the Booking team for air travel, please reach out to our flight coordinator CJ at planetickets@moisturefestival.org.
All air travel must be booked through our team; if you are interested in purchasing your own airfare for any reason, please reach out with the details. Your ticketing must be preapproved by Moisture Festival in order for it to be considered reimbursable.
Travel Expense Reimbursement
The following expenses are considered reimbursable by Moisture Festival:
- Airfare
- Baggage Fees
- Mileage, if driving from outside of the Seattle Metropolitan area and within a 200 mile radius, reimbursed at the IRS rate of $0.67 per mile
- If you are interested in driving farther than that, please reach out to admin@moisturefestival.org – mileage reimbursements of greater than 400 miles round trip will have to be preapproved.
- Ferry tickets to and from the theater
- Theater parking
*For mileage reimbursements, please include a screenshot of Google Maps showing the roundtrip mileage.
PRO TIP: TAKE PHOTOS OF RECEIPTS WITH YOUR PHONE DURING THE FESTIVAL!
The following expenses are NOT reimbursable:
- Meals or food
- Lodging
- Incidental items (ie. toiletries)
- Ground transportation
- Gas receipts (see mileage note above)
- Any expense without a receipt. A credit card statement can be used in lieu of an itemized receipt in cases when the original receipt is missing.
(Meals, lodging, and transportation to and from the theater within Seattle will be organized or provided by Moisture Festival, and are therefore not considered separately reimbursable. If circumstances are such that you feel there are exceptions to this policy, please email admin@moisturefestival.org for additional approvals.)
Receipts must be submitted by April 30th, 2025 or will not be eligible for reimbursement.
To submit receipts:
- Capture photos of all receipts, or save as screenshots, image files, or PDFs. Do not send receipts piecemeal, but as ONE final expense report.
- Attach ALL receipts to one email addressed to expenses@moisturefestival.org
- In the body of the email, list each type of expense and the total amount you are expecting to be reimbursed.
Confirmation
- You will receive an email confirmation of receipt, along with an approval of the reimbursement amount.
- Reimbursements will then be processed via Direct Deposit through Gusto, and a confirmation email will be sent when payment has been processed.
Moisture Festival will process your expense reimbursement within 7-10 business days of receipt.
If you have any questions about reimbursement, or need assistance with the process, please contact admin@moisturefestival.org.
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