The Exponential Festival presents the World Premiere of NECK DOWN by Nic Adams

The Exponential Festival presents the world premiere NECK DOWN by Nic Adams from January 9-12 2025 at We Are Here Brooklyn Studios 563 Johnson Ave Floor 2 Brooklyn NY 11237. Tickets start at $12.51 and can be purchased at https://www.theexponentialfestival.org/rainbowsend.

Set in New York City the morning before an ancient coin auction NECK DOWN is an aural hallucination on the American daydream and the heroism of broke artists. It’s the morning before an ancient coin auction in NYC and early-career artist Ciel is stuck working yet another menial temp assignment. An old money collector arrives early to inspect the legal tender upon which he plans to bid. So begins a daydream about lottery winnings caskets sex fantasies delulus of grandeur and Big Oil Banks. The physical characters onstage duet with the voices in their heads mounting a tragicomic class stand-off and a toast to the relentless spirit of artists living on the brink of precarity.

NECK DOWN

We Are Here Brooklyn Studios

563 Johnson Ave Floor 2 Brooklyn NY 11237

Performances

Thursday January 9 2025 at 8pm

Friday January 10 2025 at 8pm

Saturday January 11 2025 at 2pm & 8pm

Sunday January 12 2025 at 2pm

Artists

Written by Nic Adams

Directed by Marissa Joyce Stamps

Produced by Melissa Mickens

Lights by Andre Segar

Sound by Eden Segbefia

Sets by Ettie Pin

Costumes by Karen Boyer

Stage Managed by Sarah Samonte

Assistant Stage Managed by Deniz Demirkurt

Featuring

Alton Alburo Angela Chew Cristina Pitter* Essence Lotus Jack Dahill and Riley Wood*

NECK DOWN is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Nic Adams is a 2025 NYSCA grant recipient for NECK DOWN. He is an NYC-based educator cultural organizer and theatre-maker. MFA in playwriting Brooklyn College ('23). Adams’ work has been presented at Judson Memorial Church Joe's Pub The Bushwick Starr JACK and The Brick among other venues and by The BEAT Festival The Performing Garage Presents and The Exponential Festival for which he’s served as the Producing Director since 2017. His poetry has been published online at B O D Y Literature and his short play Grief Leash is represented by Tiny Scripted. nicadams.com @neckdown_play

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. theexponentialfestival.org

Host or Publisher Lilli Stein