Julie Hammond

Beth Thompson (she/her/they/theirs) is a Portland based actor, deviser, teacher and producer. Producing under the moniker Dancing Brain Productions and as managing director of Many Hats Collaborations, Beth focuses on theatre that embraces movement storytelling as a primary narrative tool. @dancingbrain

Heath Hyun Houghton (he/him) is a queer, Korean American adoptee who grew up in rural Michigan and is currently based in Portland, OR. He is an actor, writer and director. He holds a MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in playwriting from Goddard College and a BA in Theatre with a focus in performance from Humboldt State University. He also studied Korean dance and performance styles in Jinju, South Korea with USD Modern Dance. @waitoreke

Olivia Mathews is a performer, director, deviser, teacher based in Portland, OR. Olivia’s work is process focused, rigorous, expressive and devoted to collaboration as a means of practicing community and self-advocacy. Directing credits include Precipice (Third Rail), A Case for the Existence of God (asst, Third Rail), and The Americans (PETE). Most recent performance credits include ENDURANCE the boat, the show (CoHo Theatre), From A Hole in the Ground (Corrib Theatre), Blood Wedding and Forbidden Fruit (Shaking the Tree Theatre). Olivia also holds a certification from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s Institute for Contemporary Performance. @sauce.thing

Anne Sorce is a performer and creator. She has been in many productions with Imago Theatre. Anne trained in physical theater at the École Jacques Lecoq.

Murri Lazaroff-Babin (he/him) is an actor, deviser, and teacher from Northern California. His Portland credits include The Cherry Orchard and Procedures for Saying No (PETE), Philip's Glass Menagerie (CoHo), Pericles Wet (Portland Shakespeare Project), and Quietly (Corrib Theatre). He’s very excited about his original solo show Camp Fire Stories, currently on its first US tour! Murri holds an MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. @murri.lb

Paul Susi (he/him) is a theater artist, an educator, a writer, social services professional, and an activist, born and raised in Portland, Oregon. As an actor, he has appeared onstage with Salt and Sage, NW Classical Theatre Collaborative, Anon It Moves / String House, Shaking the Tree Studios, Push Leg, The Forgery, Island Stage Left in the San Juans, WA, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Vermont Stage Company, Teatro Solo/Boom Arts, as well as in self-produced, original work. Paul is a former homeless shelter manager, currently serves as a Conversation Project Facilitator for Oregon Humanities, and as a Peer Resource Navigator and Community Health Educator for Portland Street Medicine. He runs a mutual aid project helping people recover lost ID documents and birth certificates. His first book will be published by Perfect Day Books in the fall of 2025. www.paulsusi.wordpress.com @paul.susi

Leiana Petlewski (they/them) is a Portland based actor, dancer, theatre maker, choreographer, musician, and intimacy director who is interested in creating work that explores universal experiences within particular circumstances. They hold BAs in Dance and Applied Theatre from Pacific University, as well as a certification from the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s Institute for Contemporary Performance. Recent acting credits include Junie in Great Wide Open (Portland Playhouse), Lavinia in Titus Andronicus (Salt and Sage), and Bea in Miss Terri Terror Presents: Horror Anthology (Stage Fright Festival). Leiana has been a resident artist with From the Ground Up and The Verdancy Project, as well as a guest resident choreographer for Pacific University. They have also worked as an Intimacy Director for Salt and Sage and Pacific University. They strive to create art in a collaborative and accessible way that centers on stories previously unheard. @leiana.petlewski

Jen Mitas got her start in queer solo performance in late-1990s New York. Over the past 30 years, she has supported artists and organizations in realizing their creative visions—as a facilitator at The Field (NYC), researcher and lecturer (University of London), and founder of the Portland-based consulting practice CONE. Her work is grounded in a sustained inquiry into the ideas, economies, and processes that shape performance-making. Recent projects include dramaturgy for choreographer Katherine Longstreth and co-creating Slumber Party.

Peter Ksander is a scenographer and designer whose work has been presented both nationally and internationally. He was a founding curator of the Incubator Arts Project in NYC, and has won the Obie and a Bessie awards. He holds a MFA from CALARTS, is a Professor at Reed College and is a member of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE). He developed Apoptosis alongside Kate Duffly for the 2022 Risk/Reward festival.

Alex Pletcher (she/her) is a set and costume designer residing in Portland, OR. She is fortunate to have presented work both at home and abroad, collaborating with critically-acclaimed producers such as the LA Philharmonic, Opera Omaha, Pacific Musicworks, The Geffen Playhouse, Artists Repertory Theatre, Profile Theater, Brimmer Street Theatre Co., and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her TV/film credits include work with NBC, ABC, Fox, HBO, and LAIKA. Alex is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television.

Adrienne Wong is Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance, a company that interrogates the impact of digital disruption through art. She co-curates the Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) with Michael Wheeler and Sarah Garton Stanley. Adrienne's work straddles theatrical and digital spaces. Particular interests are in developing new work and using theatre and engagement as a strategy to promote progressive change. She was the inaugural artist in residence for CBC Radio's q. Landline (co-created with Dustin Harvey) toured nationally and internationally in French and English. Me On The Map (co-created with JD Derbyshire) continues to be adapted for young citizen designers.

Alexandra Spence is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Her practice reimagines the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions. www.alexandraspence.net @alxandraspence

Allison DeLauer's poems and texts have appeared or are forthcoming in journals, onstage, and in the anthologies Weatherings, Voices Unbound, and Playing Shakespeare's Lovers. Organizing her life somewhat like a migratory bird, she recently returned to the United States from the small medieval village of Fontecchio, Italy where she worked with the locals to bring artists-in-residence to Abruzzo. @allisonica77

Amy Botula (she/her) is a writer, advocate, and teacher. Her work has been published in Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the former food writer for PubliCola and comics reviewer for (the now defunct) Paperback Jukebox. @amylbotula

Anonymous appreciates opportunities to not be anyone in particular.

Caroline Liffmann is a performance maker with a home base in contemporary dance. She has worked as a choreographer, creator, performer, improvisor, arts educator and community arts facilitator since 2003. As a collaborator Caroline values kindness and play, and she has led creative projects with all kinds of people in all kinds of places, including community centres, art galleries, parks, schools, living rooms, and alleyways. Caroline draws on training in group facilitation, trauma informed practice and conflict resolution in her work.

Damaris Webb is a theater maker as social justice advocate. She has created new works for the stage with diverse communities around the US and internationally; her work lives in the intersection of contemplative dance, improvisational performance art, and contemporary theater. @damaris.webb.9

Hakim Regine is a queer multidisciplinary artist of Egyptian and European ancestry currently residing on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta'an Kwäch'än Council. As a theatre-maker, musician, puppet-builder and devout karaoke singer, they seek to engage with their communities by creating/tending spaces that encourage exploration, play, tough questions, and wildly imaginative possibilities.

Jennifer Keyser lives in Portland, Oregon with her two cats, Beatrix and Bonnie. She is a librarian and an occasional artist who explores the world of self-help through performance, video, and sound recordings. Her collaborative projects have included a vast assemblage of found objects, creating and animating a puppet, and group poetry writing. @minkles_jk

Larry Krone is a visual and performing artist/entertainer, graphic & clothing designer, and writer based in New York City. www.LARRYKRONE.com @biglarreon678

Linda Austin is co-founder & director of Performance Works NorthWest and has been making dance and performance since 1983, often with a strong visual element and a commitment to commissioning original music. Her working process exploits and explores the body’s powers and limits, bringing each performer’s vulnerabilities and strengths, accidental awkwardness and elegance, into a web of relationships—intimate, playful, confrontational—with other bodies, objects, environment, sound and media.

Maiko Yamamoto is a Vancouver-based artist who creates new, experimental and intercultural works of performance. She is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Theatre Replacement for which she has created over 25 new works and toured to festivals and venues around the world. Maiko’s practice draws upon her love of formal inventiveness and exploration, conceptual play, creative research, artist-centred processes and experimental and multidisciplinary practice. She often collaborates with intergenerational artists, individuals and family members in making work that searches for playful, immediate and authentic ways of bringing audiences and performances together.

Mark Cunningham is an educator and visual/conceptual artist with a background in photography. His work has been shown at UNIT/PITT, IE Gallery, Abraham J. Rogatnick Gallery, and Concourse Gallery, is held in private collections in Australia and Canada, and has been supported by funding from ArtStarts. His recent projects include investigations Boredom with elementary students and propagation of wild apples.

Matthew Ariaratnam is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, guitarist, improviser, and listener based in so called Vancouver, BC. He creates free improvised music, sensory walks, sonic bike rides, writes dumbpop and chamber music, and frequently collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and theatre-makers. www.matthewariaratnam.wordpress.com @mattplaysdumbpop

Megan Stewart lives in the woods in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is the artistic director of River Clyde Arts, a community arts organization that produces magical outdoor theatre and art in rural PEI. She baked sourdough bread before it became cool in 2020 and is proud to have taught Julie Hammond how to bake sourdough in 2022. www.meganblythe.com @littleampersand

Michelle Milne is a performer, writer, director, and educator working across the United States, including both coasts and regions in between. She has created multiple original theatre shows, performed her poetry as the character “Carmelina du Jour” in Chicago’s Poetry Bordello; appeared as Supervisor McCrae in the sci-fi TV show pilot Decktechs; and was a part of the ensemble for Palissimo’s The Painted Bird at La Mama in NYC. She currently performs around the US and Canada with Ted & Company. Michelle is a Feldenkrais Method practitioner, and has taught theatre and movement at colleges, universities, prisons, jails, and to the general public. She spent 5+ years traveling around the US as part of an ongoing writing, photography, and story-gathering project called Traveling Home.

Pepper Pepper is a performer, writer and visual artist who wants more options. thepepperpepper.com @thepepperpepper

rebecca bruton is a multi-hyphenate musician living and working in Moh'kinstiss, Treaty 7 Territory (Calgary, Alberta Canada). Her projects include bandleading the experimental supergroup Swanherds (debut album forthcoming December 2025), and releasing chamber music compositions under her own name. rebeccabruton.bandcamp.com @lilman.sound

Robyn Jacob is a composer, pianist, vocalist and educator living and working from the unceded territories of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Xwməθkwəyəm and Səl’il’wətaʔ Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her compositions include commissions by Grammy winning Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), Architek Percussion (Montreal), Grammy winning Sō Percussion (Brooklyn), Chor Leoni (Vancouver), and the Victoria Symphony, as well as collaborations with visual artists and instrument makers. www.robynjacob.com @robynckj