The Exponential Festival is happy to announce that its annual performance festival will be returning for the eleventh year in January 2026.
The Exponential Festival 2026 will feature more than 25 New York artists and companies: 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.
The Exponential Festival 2026 will take place in 9 Brooklyn venues and online: Brick Aux Studio, Brooklyn Art Haus, JACK, Life World, Loading Dock, Mercury Store (a night of process), Open Arts Studio, Target Margin's The Doxsee Theater, The Brick Theater and The Exponential Festival Youtube.
Some of the 2026 lineup includes:
Bodycount
Maleek Rae & amani aeliyah
Written by Maleek Rae and directed by amani meliyah, BODYCOUNT combines their unique talents in a collaborative, community-driven experience that explores vulnerability, healing, and the human need for intimacy.
I want to hold onto something beautiful and empty
Hillary Gao
One sexy office siren- performed by 4 performers - is trying to answer her daily email. As she hits reply all, she keeps being whisked away into more and more absurd worlds.
Letters from Tyra
Derek Smith
A spectacular duet blending song, dance, and scene work on national and Italian themes.
my utopias
Jay Stull
In the abandoned apartments of a suddenly vacant New York City, a group of survivors live a kind of idyll: they salvage, farm, cook, and wait for the species to come to a quiet end. This is someone’s utopia... and someone else's nightmare. What happens when we seize the narrative and question our role in the end of all things? Or question the end of all things at all????
:/secondplace
Kaye Hurley
What begins as a monologue about a florist unravels into a multimedia, sci-fi performance on beauty, survival, and what it means to keep creating at the end of the world.
