Nic Adams is an NYC-based playwright, director, producer, and theatre-maker.
Neck Down
"Neck Down" is a new play by Nic Adams, premiering as part of the 2025 Exponential Festival at We Are Here, an event space and production studio, in Brooklyn.
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, Sergei Diaghilev, 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.
Directed by Princess Grace Award-winner Marissa Joyce Stamps, with a cast led by Cristina Pitter and Essence Lotus, Neck Down will receive its world premiere as part of the tenth-anniversary Exponential Festival from January 9 - 12 at Bushwick event space and production studio We Are Here.
By partnering with The Exponential Festival, Neck Down will receive vital support in the form of free videography and photography, insurance, a small commission, and press representation.
This is Nic's first production since graduating from Brooklyn College. In the years since his last world premiere (2021's comedic pilot Corona Cam Show for the digital Exponential Festival), Nic:
established The Exponential Festival as a 501c3
received his MFA in playwriting, studying with Haruna Lee, Dennis A. Allen II, and Elana Greenfield
helped relaunch Brooklyn College's Weasel Festival as an independently-produced and financed endeavor
directed Lane Dombois' NO ONLY, a site-specific, immersive album release and design showcase set in and around a solar-powered shipping container on Governors Island
edited a book chronicling the first decade of The Exponential Festival, Fucked and Jolly, published by 53rd State Press
