Fucked and Jolly: Ten Years of The Exponential Festival

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Fucked and Jollyis a reflective compendium of artist-to-artist interviews commemorating a boffo decade of The Exponential Festival. Squinny at the banters between playwrights, choreographers, and clowns as they encounter one anothers work and discuss prevailing trends of performance in the new millennium, the radical experiments being conducted to bring online onstage (and vice versa), and the post-Downtown performing arts ecosystem. A missive from the still-grinding heart of the contemporary performance community,Fucked and Jollyfeatures conversations with Nic Adams, Tristan Allen, Leonie Bell, Eliza Bent, Theresa Buchheister, Ann Marie Dorr, Salom Egas, Lena Engelstein, Shawn Escarciga, Lisa Fagan, David Greenspan, Ben Holbrook, Marissa Joyce Stamps, Hannah Kallenbach, Kate Kremer, Sleth Larson, Joey Merlo, Nicols Norea, Kyoung Park, Cristina Pitter, Lee Rayment, Evan Silver, Cameron Stuart, Christina Tang, Alex Tatarsky, SB Tennent, Ellpetha Tsivicos, and Bailey Williams.

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Various reviews of the Exponential Festival:

Beacon of experimental work."The New York Times

A banquet for anyone interested in theatrical innovation, transgression, and intellectual riot. Vulture

Nothing slows down the juggernaut-of-weird Exponential Festival."Vulture

This scrappy, ambitious, multidisciplinary jubilee...celebrates local artists."The New York Times

The annual wintertime new-work bonanza."Greenpointers

[The Exponential Festival is] everywhere in Brooklyn, and they are doing everything you can imagine."Helen Shaw

The bleeding edge of theater."Gothamist

The Exponential Fest...as big as Brooklyn itself.American Theatre Magazine

The peripatetic Brooklyn-based Exponential Festival seemed to be everywhere, all of the time.American Theatre Magazine

The multi-venue series has curated a slate of emerging experimental performers who blur and complicate the boundaries of theater, comedy, visual art, and dance.Brooklyn Rail

A wild smorgasbord of eye-popping performance options."TimeOut New York

Author Bio

Nic Adamsis 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 Yorkerand 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).

Exponentialis 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.