THE EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL to Return in January 2026
The Exponential Festival 2026 will take place in nine Brooklyn venues and online: Brick Aux Studio, Brooklyn Art Haus, JACK, and more.
The Exponential Festival's annual performance festival will be returning for the eleventh year in January 2026.
The Exponential Festival 2026 will take place in nine Brooklyn venues and online: Brick Aux Studio, Brooklyn Art Haus, JACK, Life World, Loading Dock, Mercury Store (for a night of process), Open Arts Studio, Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater, and The Brick Theater. In addition, programming will be available on The Exponential Festival YouTube channel.
The festival will feature work from more than 25 New York artists and companies, including Aeon Andreas, Akane Little, Alex Rodabaugh, Amanda Horowitz, Ann Marie Dorr & William Burke, Derek Smith, Hannah Mitchell, Hillary Gao, Ife Olujobi, Isa Spector, Jay Stull, Jordan Pitts, Kaye Hurley, Kyoko Takenaka, Lianne Elsouki, Little Lord, Maleek Rae, Mann & Materials, Maria Camia, Miranda Brown & Noa Rui-Piin Weiss, Noah Latty, Normandy Sherwood & Nikki Calonge, Nurit Chinn, The Goat Exchange, and salOn! curated by Jillian Jetton & Matthew Antoci.
In addition to this exciting news, we have two more important updates:
1. After a successful run at Loading Dock Theatre in Exponential 2022, Rawya El Chab and Kelly Lamanna's The Gambler will inaugurate a regional touring program between The Exponential Festival and Baltimore performing arts center Le Mondo, offering Exponential artists the chance to tour their work and engage in an artistic exchange, giving them the experience of building relationships with audiences outside of New York City. Performances will begin Friday, July 25.
2. Exponential is proud to announce our first Self-Producing Fellows: Akane Little, Mann & Materials, Jay Stull, Kaye Hurley, and Lianne Elsouki. Fellows will receive a commission to present their work at next year's Exponential Festival, a 50/50 box-office income split, 4 performances, free rehearsal hours at Brick Aux, monthly producing workshops with Exponential staff, and more!
