Off-Broadway's Ars Nova, currently under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors Andrew Neisler and Anna Morton Stacey and Managing Director Mac Ingram, has announced its inaugural Artists in Residence cohort for the 2025–2026 season. 

The 2025–2026 artists in residence include Jason Aguirre and Adam J. Rineer; Mack Brown, Emerson Mae Smith and Murphy Taylor Smith; Aneesa Folds; abigail jean-baptiste; and AriDy Nox. Their residencies at Ars Nova will continue through June 2026.

The program is an individually tailored, development-based residency for early-career performing artists of all disciplines to explore a project in house at Ars Nova over the course of a season. The artists are able develop work in non-traditional ways while building community and peer relationships with artists across genres in the residency cohort.

Co-Artistic Directors Neisler and Stacey said in a statement, “We’re thrilled to welcome these eight artists into the Ars Nova community this season. The focus of Ars Nova’s Artists in Residence Program is on a fruitful process and the development of an artistic practice, not on a finished product. We are excited to encourage these artists to think big, take risks and push their creative potential as they make work under Ars Nova’s roof. We can’t wait to see how the year unfolds.”

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