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Nic Adams is a NYC-based theatre-maker. Upcoming works include: "Mean Time", a full-length comedy about revolutionary spirits set at a high-school drunk-driving assembly, and "The Comfort Illusion", an interactive performance poem charting one person’s struggle to rewild himself. Recent works include "Bun in the Oven", Dr. Eustice Sissy's scripted comedic spin-off podcast co-written with Lee Rayment (Corkscrew Festival, August 2020). Produced works include: "Duet-ed", co-created with Cori Marquis (2019); "Icarus in the L.E.S." (2017); "White Wines (after Plays)" (2015); "Six Church Poems" (2014); and "The Silent Janitor" (2013). His work has been presented at Judson Memorial Church, Joe's Pub, The Bushwick Starr, The Brooklyn Museum, JACK, and The Tank, and by The BEAT Festival, The Performing Garage Presents, and The Exponential Festival. Residencies and fellowships include Atlantic Center for the Arts, IRT Theater, Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, The In-Between People, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His writing has been published online at B O D Y Literature and in print with Avaantlanche. BA in Theatre Arts from The University of Arizona.

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Brooklyn College Playwrights Present 15th WEASEL FESTIVAL This June


Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting Program's Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood returns for its 15th year at The Brick Theater on Friday, June 9th and Saturday, June 10th, 2023 at 8pm.

BRING A WEASEL AND A PINT OF YOUR OWN BLOOD Infamous Festival Of New Plays Is Back!


Weasel Festival (whose full official Mac-Wellman-given title is Bring a Weasel and A Pint of Your Own Blood) has served as a showcase for recent graduates in Brooklyn College's MFA playwriting program for the last 14-odd years. Alumni include: Tina Satter (Is This a Room), Annie Baker (The Flick), Young Jean Lee (Straight White Men), Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves), Jess Barbagallo (Weekend At Barry's), Clare Barron (Dance Nation), Haruna Lee (Suicide Forest), Dennis Allen II (When We Wake Up Dead) and many more!

The Tank Announces Schedule for City Artist Corps Grantee Performances


The Tank announced today the programming schedule for the City Artist Corps Grantee Performances. From now until October 31st, the Tank is presenting FREE in-person programming highlighting the work of 14 City Artist Corps Grantees.

CORONA CAM SHOW Premieres Tonight


The premiere of Corona Cam Show, a new YouTube dating-advice cabaret created by Lee Rayment and written by Nic Adams, premieres tonight, Wednesday, January 13th, at 9pm on The Exponential Festival’s YouTube channel.

Photo Flash: First Look at CORONA CAM SHOW


The premiere of Corona Cam Show, a new YouTube dating-advice cabaret created by Lee Rayment and written by Nic Adams, will take place on January 13 at 9pm on The Exponential Festival’s YouTube channel.

Exponential Festival 2021 Announces Week Two Lineup


The Exponential Festival presents and promotes experimental performances created by New York-based artists working across all mediums. The works will premiere this January on Exponential's YouTube channel for a suggested donation, with 100% of proceeds going to the artists.

Full Cast Announced for 'STIFF DRINK!?' WITH DR. EUSTICE SISSY (PSY.D.), PRESENTS: 'CORONA CAM SHOW'


The Exponential Festival has announced the full cast and creative team for the World Premiere of “‘Stiff Drink!?’ with Dr. Eustice Sissy (Psy.D.), presents: ‘Corona Cam Show’”, a YouTube dating-advice cabaret, written and directed by Lee Rayment and Nic Adams, with original songs by Adams (Icarus in the L.E.S., Duet-ed).

The Exponential Festival Presents CORONA CAM SHOW


The Exponential Festival will present the world premiere production of ''Stiff Drink!?' with Dr. Eustice Sissy (Psy.D.), presents: 'Corona Cam Show'' by Lee Rayment and Nic Adams.

The Exponential Festival 2021 Announces Showtimes


The Exponential Festival presents and promotes experimental performances created by New York-based artists working across all mediums. 

The Exponential Festival Announces 2021 Artists


The Exponential Festival presents and promotes theatrical performances created by New York-based artists working in experimental performance. 

Corkscrew Theater Festival Launches Corkscrew 4.0


Corkscrew Theater Festival in collaboration with Sheep Eats Wolf presents corkscrew 4.0, a series of interactive online experiences as twisted, unsettling, absurd, and alienating as the internet itself.

Corkscrew Theater Festival To Present CORKSCREW 4.0


Corkscrew Theater Festival in collaboration with Sheep Eats Wolf will present corkscrew 4.0, a series of interactive online experiences as twisted, unsettling, absurd, and alienating as the internet itself. Available at corkscrew4pt0.com starting Monday, August 10 through Sunday, August 23, these experiences are inspired by the plays programmed for what would have been Corkscrew's fourth summer season of five world premieres and four readings. 

2020 Corkscrew Theater Festival Postponed To 2021


Corkscrew Theater Festival, scheduled to return for its fourth season this summer, will postpone its live presentations until summer 2021 due to COVID-19. Corkscrew is committed to supporting its artists financially and artistically through the year's delay, and will present the entire lineup of performances next year.

Theresa Buchheister, Ryan William Downey and Travis Just Usher The Brick into its New Era


Theresa Buchheister, Ryan William Downey and Travis Just have officially taken the reins at The Brick. As of January 1, 2020 they are ushering The Brick into a new era along with their artistic and curatorial collaborators: Teresa Braun, Phil Hartman, Yuki Kawahisa, Alyse Lamb, Justin Liville, Nicolas Noreña, and Harrison David Rivers. This exciting transition was announced in July, 2019 via The New York Times

DUET-ED Announces Performer Schedule For 1.25


The Exponential Festival, a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging artists working in experimental performance, is proud to present the world premiere production of Duet-ed by What Holds Heat.

Exponential Festival Presents DUET-ED 1.18


The Exponential Festival, a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging artists working in experimental performance, is proud to present the world premiere production of Duet-ed by What Holds Heat.

DUET-ED Announces Performer Schedule


The Exponential Festival, a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging artists working in experimental performance, is proud to present the world premiere production of Duet-ed by What Holds Heat.

The Exponential Festival 2019 Presents DUET-ED


The Exponential Festival, a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging artists working in experimental performance, is proud to present the world premiere production of Duet-ed by What Holds Heat. What Holds Heat is a collaboration between Nic Adams (Icarus in the L.E.S.) and Cori Marquis (Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX] and LMnO3). Of their works, they write, "Our kinetic and experiential works of performance seek to extend the boundaries of theatre and expand its power for our audience. Our ensemble-based theatre prioritizes impressionistic storytelling, with subjects ranging from the intimate to the fantastical, while always being grounded in the complexity of human relationships." Since 2015, What Holds Heat has produced three original works for the stage, at venues like Dixon Place, The Bushwick Starr (as part of Target Margin Theater's Stein Labs), and Vital Joint.

The Exponential Festival Announces Lineup And Venues


The Exponential Festival, a month-long January festival for NYC-based emerging, experimental performing artists, is proud to announce the lineup of artists and venues for its fourth year of programming. Performances will take place January 4 - February 3 in partnership with The Brick, Chez Bushwick, The Glove, JACK, Target Margin Theater's The Doxsee, Triskelion's Douglas Elliman Studio Theater and Vital Joint. Panels will take place at The Bushwick Starr. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring, and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields to keep theatre kicking.

FEAST: A Performance Series Presents Their Latest Installment


FEAST: A Performance Series, curated and Produced by Alex Randrup and Conrad Kluck, presents their latest monthly show, FEAST: May. This performance takes place on Wednesday, May 2nd at 7pm at UNDER St. Marks Theater (94 St. Marks Place). Following the performance, the audience is invited to meet and mingle with the artists at The Grafton, with reserved tables and happy hour specials.

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