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Team
NURIT CHINN
Co-Director
Nurit Chinn (she/they) is a playwright and producer from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays include: I LOVE STRANGERS (2025 Alliance/Kendeda Finalist), GODBIRD (Weasel Festival 2024, dir. Kedian Keohan), and BOAZ, an adaptation of Nicole Krauss’s short story, “I Am Asleep But My Heart is Awake." Her work has been produced or developed at Alliance Theatre, BAM Fisher, Camden Fringe Festival, VAULT Festival, Dixon Place, Brooklyn College, and others. Nurit is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group in London. She is currently the Playwright-in-Residence at Centro Primo Levi in New York and the Next Generation Fellow at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, where she curates and programs international theatre artists and events. BA: Yale University; MFA: Brooklyn College.
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
RILEY NORVEZ
Website Associate
Riley Norvez is a sophomore at Hunter College and an intern with the 2026 Exponential Festival. An early-career artist based in New York City, Riley has exhibited work at The High Line Gallery, The Elm Gallery, and The Boiler Room Exhibition.
BAILEY WILLIAMS
Co-Director
Bailey Williams (she) is a playwright, performer and producer. Her play (co-written and performed with Emma Horwitz) Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods was first presented at The Exponential Festival in 2024 (dir. Tara Elliott) before moving to an off-Broadway production with Rattlestick Theater and New Georges in April 2025. Other productions include Coach Coach at Clubbed Thumb in June 2024, Events with The Hearth at the Brick Theater in December 2022), I thought I would die but I didn't at the Tank in May 2019 (all with dir. Sarah Blush), and Buffalo Bailey's Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other: A 90 Minute Timeshare Presentation with Exponential in January 2018. She has worked in a variety of administrative and producorial capacities for myriad theaters and artists since 2013. Bailey is currently the Literary Manager of Clubbed Thumb. More info can be found at 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.
KIM LEONHARDT
Social Media Associate
Kim Leonhardt (she) is a junior at Hunter College, majoring in film. Kim grew up in Germany and came to the US when she was eleven years old. Struggling with a language barrier at first, she found her voice through art and creative expression. With the help of Reel Works, a teen filmmaking program, she made her first short film in 8th grade and has been directing and producing films ever since. Her shorts have been screened at various film festivals such as: Flint Youth Film Festival (2022), New York City Public School Film Festival (2022), Museum of the Moving Image Teen Festival (2022) and DIYDS (2023), and have won several awards, such as New York City Scholastic Awards (2022,2023) and YoungArts Award (2023).
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