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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, dir. Tara Ahmadinejad, Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2026. Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, dir. Tara Elliott, Rattlestick/New Georges, April 2025 and Exponential Festival, January 2024. Coach Coach, dir. Sarah Blush, Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks 2024. Events, dir. Sarah Blush, The Hearth at The Brick, December 2022. I thought I would die but I didn’t, dir. Sarah Blush, The Tank, May 2019. Buffalo Bailey’s Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other: a 90 Minute Timeshare Presentation, The Exponential Festival, January 2018. 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 the 2025 NYSCA Commission for Artists, 2024 NYC Women’s Fund, and the Anna Sosenko Trust. She was a 2024 Relentless Prize Honorable Mention and on the long-list for the 2025 Brentwood Prize. 2025 Edward Albee Fellow, 2022 MacDowell Fellow for Fiction, 2022 Audrey Resident with New Georges, an alum of Ars Nova’s Play Group and Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. 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. They present work created both in collaboration and individually. They also host a reading series called The Ecstatic Peephole every third Monday at Pete’s Candy Store. 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 2025 NYSCA grant recipient for his play, NECK DOWN, which premiered as part of the tenth-anniversary Exponential Festival. He is an NYC-based educator, cultural organizer, and theatre-maker. MFA in playwriting, Brooklyn College ('23). Adams’ work has been presented at We Are Here Brooklyn Studios, Judson Memorial Church, Joe's Pub, The Bushwick Starr, JACK, and The Brick, among other venues, and by The BEAT Festival, and The Performing Garage Presents. His poetry has been published online at B O D Y Literature, and his short play, Grief Leash, is represented by Tiny Scripted. More at nicadams.com | IG: @nniiccoollaass
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.
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