Fucked and Jolly: Ten Years of the Exponential Festival

Fucked and Jolly is 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 another's 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 Jolly features conversations with Nic Adams, Tristan Allen, Leonie Bell, Eliza Bent, Theresa Buchheister, Ann Marie Dorr, Salomé Egas, Lena Engelstein, Shawn Escarciga, Lisa Fagan, David Greenspan, Ben Holbrook, Marissa Joyce Stamps, Hannah Kallenbach, Kate Kremer, Sleth Larson, Joey Merlo, Nicolás Noreña, Kyoung Park, Cristina Pitter, Lee Rayment, Evan Silver, Cameron Stuart, Christina Tang, Alex Tatarsky, SB Tennent, Ellpetha Tsivicos, and Bailey Williams.

Author: Nic Adams
Publisher: 53rd State Press
Published: 11/26/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9798986581460

About the Author

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.