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Team
NURIT CHINN
Co-Director / Board Member
Nurit Chinn (she/they) is a playwright, screenwriter, and producer from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at The Bushwick Starr, Alliance Theatre, CUNY Segal Center, Centro Primo Levi, and supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her play Godbird was produced at The Brick as part of the 2026 Exponential Festival, and will be published by Concord Theatricals. She is currently developing an original TV project with Amazon.
Nurit is a first year fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. She is an alum of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, the Neighborhood’s Working Artist Group, and the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her plays have been finalists for the Princess Grace Award, the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, the Alliance/Kendeda Award, and shortlisted for the U.K.’s Women’s Prize in Playwriting. Nurit won the Concord Theatricals Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival in 2025. BA: Yale University. MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting. nuritchinn.com
THERESA BUCHHEISTER
Founder / Board Chair
Theresa Buchheister (they/Dude Judy) is the former Artistic Director of The Brick, co-founder of Vital Joint, and founder and co-director of Title:Point. Theresa directs, produces, performs, curates, facilitates, and writes for theatre and theatre-adjacent performance realms. Theresa is a voice-over director, teacher, performer, and engineer. They are also working with Harrison David Rivers on a fiction podcast residency - Sound Lab.
CARLY BALES
Board Member
Carly J. Bales (she/they) is a performance-based artist, director, and cultural producer based in Baltimore. Her award-winning work spans from plays and devised theatre to ephemeral performance installations in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces. She is also an accomplished arts organizer focused on creating intentional spaces for artistic experimentation and collaboration. From 2011 - 2018, Bales was the Founding Artistic Director of EMP Collective, and is currently the Founding Director of Le Mondo, a grassroots project transforming vacant properties in downtown Baltimore into artist-led art space. More at carlybales.com | IG: @missbales
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PAUL LEVINE
Associate Producer
Paul William Levine (he/him) is an NYC-based playwright and producer born and raised in the Florida swamp. Using dark comedy, his surreal plays explore the inexplicable links between queerness, tragedy, and fate. Paul has envisioned and produced accessible cultural + artistic + public programming at the American Museum of Natural History, Roundabout Theatre Company, and the new American LGBTQ+ Museum, where he is one of the first staff members. His artistic work has been shown at The Brick, Dixon Place, Playwrights Downtown, Makers’ Ensemble, the Tank, Woodward Residency, and has received two Brooklyn Arts Council grants. Paul recently joined the admin team at Exponential Festival, championing new work. His play I Know Marvelous People will be published this fall (1319 Press). He loves drinking seltzer, staring directly into the sun, and wearing a seatbelt. BFA: NYU Tisch, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. paulwilliamlevine.com
BAILEY WILLIAMS
Co-Director / Board Member
Bailey Williams (she) is a playwright, performer and producer. Past productions: The Family Dog (Clubbed Thumb), Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (Rattlestick/New Georges and Exponential 2024), Coach Coach (Clubbed Thumb), Events (The Hearth at The Brick), I thought I would die but I didn’t (The Tank), Buffalo Bailey’s Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other: a 90 Minute Timeshare Presentation (Exponential). Other works have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Portland Center Stage, Ars Nova, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Orchard Project, NACL, the Barn at Lee, and more. Her work has been supported by multiple grants including NYSCA, NYC Women’s Fund, and the Anna Sosenko Trust, and as an Edward Albee Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and as an Audrey Resident with New Georges. Honorable Mention: Relentless Prize. Finalist: Brentwood Prize. Alum: Ars Nova’s Play Group and Clubbed Thumb ECWG. She is a New Georges and Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and a resident of New Dramatists through 2033. She is currently under commission from Playwrights Horizons. With her partner, Emma Horwitz, she runs a theater company called Two Sisters, producing their work and hosting a reading series called The Ecstatic Peephole. Twosisterspresents.com Bailey also works at New Georges, Clubbed Thumb and for Privy Producing Collective, which offers resources for self-producing artists. baileywilliams.live
NIC ADAMS
Producing Director / Board Member
Nic Adams (he) is a cultural organizer and theatre-maker. Presenters include We Are Here, Judson, Joe's Pub, The Bushwick Starr (produced by Target Margin), JACK (with Oye Group), and The Brick (Weasel Festival). Residencies and fellowships include Fresh Ground Pepper’s Playground Playgroup, The Grange Projects (UK), Mercury Store’s Project Week, the Woodward Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, IRT Theater, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His work has been commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts and Mind Dream Theater, and supported by the MAP + Venturous Theater Funds, Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, the City Artist Corps, and IndieSpace. His short play, Grief Leash, is represented by Tiny Scripted, and his poetry is published with B O D Y Literature. MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting. nicadams.com
BILLY MCENTEE
Board Member
Billy McEntee (he) is a Brooklyn-based writer. He’s a freelance arts journalist (The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Interview, Vanity Fair) and theatermaker who recently co-created the extended, “recommended” (Vulture) play The Voices in Your Head at St. Lydia’s. As Theater Editor of the Brooklyn Rail, Billy started Rail Shorts, a biannual series publishing mini-plays, and contributes monthly essays analyzing new works, particularly experimental plays with shorter runs that receive less coverage. Billy was the inaugural Helbing Fellow for the American Theatre Critics Association. He also teaches with The School of The New York Times and is the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s director for the Institute of Theater Journalism and Advocacy. Billy graduated cum laude from Boston College and loves his home state, New Jersey.
ASHELY PIGNATARO a.k.a. VAPE KID JR.
Media Assets Artist
Ashely Pignataro a.k.a. Vape Kid Jr. is a trans feminine Drag King and puppeteer. Vape Kid and his menagerie of mutants blend genre and gender to shock and delight the humans of New York. He has been featured in such publications as Them Magazine, New York Theater Magazine, The New York Times and the cover of nonfiction best seller Puppet Slam- History & How To. He is best known for his ongoing character work as the demented host of farcical children’s television program “Cool Zone” which has been featured as part of The Exponential Festival as well as a sold out remount at The Brick.
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