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THERESA BUCHHEISTER
Founding Artistic Director / Board Member
Theresa Buchheister (they/Dude Judy) is a Kansan New Yorker and Artistic Director of The Brick, founder and co-director of Title:Point, artistic director of The Exponential Festival, and co-founder of the recently shuttered Vital Joint. 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
DENIZ DEMIRKURT
Fundraising
Deniz Demirkurt (she) is a Turkish-American composer/lyricist, performer, and vocal arranger. She has graduated from Berklee College of Music with a BM in Songwriting, and NYU Tisch with an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. Her works of musical theatre include Echo: A Musical Quest, La Voisin, Miroir, and It Takes a Village, which have been performed in various colleges and venues such as Feinstein’s 54 Below, Emerging Artists Theatre, The Center at West Park, Dixon Place, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama.
insta: @deniz_demirkurt
website: www.denizdemirkurtmusic.com
NIC ADAMS
Producing Director / Board Member
Nic Adams (he) is a New York City-based playwright and theatre-maker. His work has been presented at venues such as The Brick, Judson Memorial Church, Joe's Pub, The Performing Garage, JACK, and more. Residencies and fellowships include the Woodward Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, IRT Theater, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. MFA in Playwriting, Brooklyn College. More at nicadams.com | IG: @nniiccoollaass
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NURIT CHINN
Creative Producer
Nurit Chinn (she/they) is a playwright, educator and producer from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her one act, Godbird, will premiere at BAM in September as part of the Weasel Festival. Her full-length plays include I LOVE STRANGERS (Brooklyn College NPL reading @ Lincoln Center; Finalist, 2024-2025 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition; Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill NPC 2024), Best of Three (Etcetera Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival) and BOAZ. Nurit was a member of the Royal Court Theatre’s 2020 Writers’ Group and her shorter works have been staged at the VAULT Festival and Dixon Place. Nurit currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College, where she completed her MFA. She is also a Next Generation Fellow at the Martin E. Segal Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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