January 28-29, 2025

Hop into your body and out of your head; welcome to the world of the ha-ha-ha! Filled to the brim with beautiful chaos and hilarious failures, in this class, we will play games that get you in touch with your innate sense of play and spontaneity & bring you into the present moment onstage.

Hannah Mitchell is an actor, theater-maker, and educator whose process is guided by the improvisational arts, especially clown & bouffon. She devises new experimental works of theater, performs live comedy bits, and regularly collaborates with various ensembles, including her clown company, WüfPak, and the experimental theater collective, CHILD. Hannah has performed at many venues around NYC including The Public, The Brick, The Park Ave Armory, The Collapsable Hole, Lincoln Center, LifeWorld, The New Ohio, Theater Mitu, HERE Arts, Target Margin, and The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, among others. She guest lectures in clown at The School of Visual Arts, and teaches independent workshops around NYC.

~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~

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.