Fucked and Jolly: Ten Years of The Exponential Festival

About

Nic Adams is an NYC-based playwright director producer and theatre-maker. His work has been seen in NYC at Judson Memorial Church Joe's Pub The Bushwick Starr (with Target Margin) JACK and The Tank among others and by The BEAT Festival The Performing Garage Presents and The Exponential Festival for which he serves as the Producing Director. Residencies and fellowships include the Woodward Residency Atlantic Center for the Arts IRT Theater Theater Reconstruction Ensemble The In-Between People and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His writing has been published online at B O D Y Literature and in print with Avantlanche. Since 2017 he has served as the Producing Director of The Exponential Festival. MFA in playwriting Brooklyn College 23.Theresa Buchheister (They/Them) is a Kansan New Yorker and founder and co-director of Title:Point founder and Artistic Director of The Exponential Festival and co-founder of Vital Joint. Theresa directs produces performs curates facilitates and writes for theatre and theatre-adjacent performance realms. Their work has been seen at The Ontological Theater The New Ohio Dixon Place HERE Housing Works NACL The Brick Silent Barn Vital Joint The Parlour Target Margins The Doxsee on rafts in warehouses in trucks in bars. They are also a voice over director performer teacher and engineer (current: BoyGirlDogCatMouseCheese multiple audiobooks and podcasts; past: Pokemon The Winx Club World of Winx How Music Works Perks of Being a Wallflower A Young Innovators Guide to STEM Arrow of Time Recursive Cast etc).Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists forms and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing mentoring and the championing of risky rigorous work in eclectic fields.