THE 2025 EXPONENTIAL FESTIVAL
TRIPLE BILL
Written and Performed by Sophie Zmorrod
Directed by Maggie Lee
Produced by Kunal Kamath
Image Design by Ellen Carpenter
“In the final act of Giuseppe Verdi’s acclaimed opera Rigoletto,
Gilda waits inside of a body bag onstage for her cue to die. She has some time to think about her life choices.”
Written by Kenneth Keng
Directed by Annaporva Green
Lighting design by Zee Hanna
Stage Manager: Laila Gerstmann
Cast: Emma Callahan
Photo by Kelsey Cheng
“AMA is Ask Me Anything but it’s my grandma asking and the audience answering
and also she’s dying and also my country is about to be invaded for the second time this century.“
Written and directed by Lal Ensari
Performed by Sophia Nelson, Soraya Omtzigt and Lal Ensari
Poster by Elif Özkoç
“winter solstice is a site-specific gathering that aims to bring some lightness,
joy and celebration into the darkness of winter.“
Gilda, with an Olive, Ama, and winter solstice
Triple Bill
January 17 – 18, 7:30 pm
January 18, 2 pm
January 19, 4 pm
by Hayley Stahl
With: Hannah Applebaum, Cricket Brown, Sterling Gates,
Morgan Kaplan, Carolyn Kettig, Zaid Milefchik
Produced by: Hanna Yurfest
Performances:
January 25 – 26 at 8pm
January 29 – 30 at 8pm
February 1 at 2 pm & 8pm
February 2 at 2pm (family-friendly show)
Presented by the Exponential Festival
Exponential is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. 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.