Fucked and Jolly: Ten Years of the Exponential Festival

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 Margin's 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 Innovator's 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.