THE 2026 EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL


Co-directed by Normandy Sherwood and Nikki Calonge
Writing and Production Design by Normandy Sherwood
Choreography by Nikki Calonge
Lighting Design by Christina Tang
Sound Design by Johnny Gasper
Performances by Nicolas Noreña, Julia Gu 谷曦, Alei Russo, Adrienne Swan, Susannah Millonzi
Production Management and Technical Direction by Jack Woods
Stage Management by Madelyn Barkozy
Associate Stage Manager: Sarah Samonte
Lead Image Credits: Nikki Calonge & Normandy Sherwood

The Mushroom. It is a radial play with spokes pointing outward. Or an explosion of spores in the form of an evening at the theater. It is a pageant that gives a micro view of the forest floor. It has to do with awe and decadence and the question: “What knows it’s alive?”

Performances:
January 8 – 9 at 5pm and 8pm
January 10 at 2pm, 5pm, and 8pm
January 11 at 2pm and 5pm


with Little Lord
Conceived and Facilitated by Michael Levinton and Little Lord
With: Moe Angelos*, Joshua William Gelb, RN Healey, Michael Levinton*, Meg MacCary*,
Daniel Allen Nelson*, Morgan Lindsey Tachco, Laura von Holt, Kate Weber*
Stage Management: Siena Yusi*, Dominique Nadeau*
Photo: Michael Levinton


Have drugs stopped working? You may need PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. 5 sessions only.
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Performances:
January 13 – 16 at 7:30pm
January 17 at 3pm and 7:30pm

Produced by Little Lord (Michael Levinton/Artistic Director, and Morgan Lindsey Tachco/Creative Producer) and Lucy Powis


by The Goat Exchange
Chloe Claudel (co-director, cast)
Mitchell Polonsky (co-director, sound and media)
Finn Bamber (lights)
Forest Entsminger (scenic)
Tei Blow (consulting sound designer)
Lena Engelstein (choreography)

Time is passing strangely for Ellen Brody. The long night seemed to have set in. That’s just the way it goes when you’re the wife from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.

Performances:
January 23-24 at 8pm
January 25 at 2pm
January 26 at 8pm
January 28-30 at 8pm
January 31 at 7pm


Presented by the Exponential Festival

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.