PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Photos by Valerie Terranova
Have drugs stopped working? You may need PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Has complacency become paralysis? You may need PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Is a silver medal losing? You may need PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Exponential Festival presents PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT with Little Lord
6 sessions only: January 13 - 16, 2026 @ 7:30pm / January 17 @ 3pm and 7:30pm
Target Margin's Upstairs Studio (232 52nd Street and Third Avenue, Brooklyn)
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT with Little Lord is an untrained/unauthorized community-built self-help seminar. Are we back? Is this anything? Does this help?
In a return to public performance after an extended pandemic pause, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT explores themes of self-actualization, soft skills, pop psychology, and body betrayal. Developed through residencies with The Mercury Store, LMCC, Coffey Street Studio, and Aunt Karen's Farm, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT with Little Lord will have its first public showings January 2026 as part of the Exponential Festival at Target Margin. Additional support has been provided from Clubbed Thumb, made possible by Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation.
Conceived and Facilitated: Michael Levinton and Little Lord
Produced: Little Lord and Lucy Powis
With: Moe Angelos*, Joshua William Gelb, RN Healey, Michael Levinton*, Meg MacCary*,
Daniel Allen Nelson*, Morgan Lindsey Tachco, Laura von Holt, Kate Weber*
Stage Managed: Dominique Nadeau* and Orla Patterson
*member AEA
Press: Everyman Agency
Additional Collaborators: Kaaron Briscoe, David Commander, Tim Cusack, Sauda Jackson, Polly Lee, Labhoise Magee, James Wyrwicz
Please note the performance venue is not ADA compliant – audience members will have to walk up two flights of stairs. The venue has no elevator. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT requires no outwardly active audience participation – but we do encourage you to do that internal work on your own.
Run Time: approx 75 minutes
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Exponential Festival is a month-long January festival dedicated to New York City-based 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. Led by Nic Adams, Nurit Chinn, and Bailey Williams, Exponential 2026 will be our 11th year. www.theexponentialfestival.org
