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<div>The Exponential Festival is a <strong>volunteer-run</strong> performance festival for <strong>New York City based artists</strong> and <strong>Brooklyn venues</strong> described by Greenpointers as an “<strong>annual wintertime new-work bonanza</strong>.” Since 2016, we have presented <strong>hundreds of productions</strong> made by <strong>thousands of working-class artists</strong>, attended by <strong>tens of thousands of New Yorkers</strong>. <br /><br />Our work has been lauded by The New Yorker, Vulture, American Theatre Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times, whose chief theatre critic Helen Shaw described Exponential as “<strong>where you go to see [performance] in [its] purest and most inventive state</strong>.”<br /><br /><span><span><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790979907/wysiwyg/bouukvzvmhulky5celds.jpg" style="width:542px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" /><span><em>FAGGOTICA</em> by Aeon Andreas at Brooklyn Art Haus featuring Akane, Maxx Love, Miles Nelson, Jae Neal, and Noel Olson. Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk. <br /></span></span></span><br />Exponential is dedicated to creating the conditions for <strong>the next big thing</strong>, recentering our artistic ecosystem on locals, <strong>paying working-class artists</strong> and subsidizing their productions with free resources like promotion, photography, videography, insurance and more, in order to <strong>help artists take root </strong>in NYC.<br /><br /><span><span><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790980423/wysiwyg/hopmxo3vuvp1ydobviic.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" /><span><em>Time Passes</em> by The Goat Exchange at Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater featuring Chloe Claudel. Photo by Lee Rayment.</span></span></span></div><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><div>The EF27 artists are as follows: </div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div>BRICK AUX</div><ul><li>Salwa Meghjee and Sarah Marlin</li><li>Emma Ladji</li><li>Benja Thompson</li></ul><div><br />BROOKLYN ART HAUS</div><ul><li>Eva Wolfson</li></ul><div><br />JACK</div><ul><li>Sarah K. Finn / In Spite Productions </li><li>Khristián Méndez Aguirre presented by Teatro de la Tierra</li><li>Thalia Sablon</li></ul><div><br />LIFE WORLD</div><ul><li>MTHR TRSA</li><li>Jo Warren</li><li>Reed Rushes</li></ul><div><br />LOADING DOCK</div><ul><li>Loading Dock Theatre</li><li>SOUR MILK and Hillary Gao</li></ul><div><br />MERCURY STORE</div><ul><li>SalOn! - a night of process</li></ul><div><br />TARGET MARGIN'S THE DOXSEE THEATER</div><ul><li>Amanda Hameline</li><li>Deepa Purohit</li><li>Needy Lover presents Kallan Dana</li></ul><div><br />THE BRICK</div><ul><li>ankita sharma</li><li>Iris McCloughan</li><li>Kara Hadden</li></ul><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><div><span><span><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790980442/wysiwyg/hzwdaii7ag1hkheqeuda.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" /><span>Darling Toby at <em>SalOn! (RETRO / GRADE)</em> curated by Matthew Antoci &amp; Jillian Jetton at Mercury Store. Photo by Lee Rayment.</span></span></span></div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><div>Founded by <strong>Theresa Buchheister</strong>, Exponential strives to program a festival of <strong>multidisciplinary NYC artists</strong> representing Brooklyn in its <strong>great diversity</strong>: presenting as many queer artists as not, as many women and non-binary artists as not, and as many artists of color as not. <br /><br />This coming year will be our 12th festival and our 2nd season under directors <strong>Bailey Williams</strong> and <strong>Nurit Chinn</strong>. It will feature the work of <strong>19 lead artists</strong> at over <strong>100 ticketed in-person performances</strong> in <strong>8 Brooklyn venues</strong>. </div><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><span><span><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hxn9dbuhd/image/upload/v1790980456/wysiwyg/avwuu24u3euut4tkm0xn.jpg" style="width:600px;display:block;vertical-align:top;margin:5px auto;text-align:center;padding:0px 1px;max-width:100%" /><span><em>The Mushroom</em> by Normandy Sherwood &amp; Nikki Calonge at Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater featuring Nicolas Noreña, Julia Gu 谷曦, Alei Russo, and Adrienne Swan. Photo by Lee Rayment.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%"><br /></p><p style="margin:0px;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%">Stay tuned for campaign updates, consider sharing our campaign on social media using the hashtag #exponentialfestival, and <strong>THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT</strong>!</p>

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