2025 CoHo residency

COHO RESIDENCY PROJECT

Produced by CoHo Productions
June 20- July 6th, 2025

The CoHo Residency Project is a semester-long opportunity for artists to develop an idea or revive an old project and take it to the next level. Over the course of the semester, each artist will be guided and supported by CoHo to help them cultivate an organic creative process that they can take with them wherever they produce in the future. Back for our third year, CoHo Residency performances will be both live and in person. Learn more about individual shows below, and book your pay-what-you-can tickets today!

2025 CoHo Residency shows!

Seers of the Savant Garde

Presented by The Clown Mystics

June 20-21 Doors at 7pm Show at 7:30pm

June 22 doors at 4:30 Show at 5pm

“Seers of the Savant Garde” is an alchemical transformation of the mundane world into joy, magic, and flabbergasted delight of the strange unknown. It is a semi-improvisational divinatory comedy with a clown oracle deck informed by the Tarot. While the scaffold of the show is set, it is the “luck of the draw,” the energy of the audience, and the collective instincts of the Clown Mystics that co-create the direction of each show, achieving an ephemeral sense of camaraderie by inviting the audience into the collective spellcasting.

They’ll guide you into an immersive choose-your-own adventure fueled by the collective coven power of the audience.

The Clown Mystics

The Clown Mystics are a karmically formed group of clowns and magic makers, dedicated to the art of ritual performance through the absurdity and play of the clown. They are currently working on an upcoming full performance titled “Seers of the Savant Garde,” a mixed media piece that will explore themes of occultism, gender-bending, and mask work culminating in a collective clown tarot reading while channeling visions from the past and invoking a whimsical and mystifying exploration of archetypes from the aether.

urks io (they/them) is an omninonbinary, interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, OR. Their work focuses on collective creation, weaving the dream of a radical queer utopia into reality, and encouraging exploration and play through the creation of immersive worlds. Filled with irreverent humor, word play, and ecstatic nonsense, urks envisions characters, situations, and universes that embody an optimistic and effervescent vision of our future– exploring how future generations will integrate joy, pleasure, and play into their lives. Currently, urks is working as a teacher, events producer, and artist. urks is a collaborator and co-producer of a variety of creative projects – the TV shows ”Magic Night at the Trans Bar with Max and Mars and Given and Urks and Friends” and “Friends in Space-Time Story Hour,” as well as the theatre group The Clown Mystics.

Given Q Davis (he/they) is a witchy lil Black queer nonbinary trans masc performer, interdisciplinary artist, and magic maker. They weave drag and clown performance in, through, and around their love of music, poetry, divination, and video art as an ongoing love letter to the beautiful, hilarious, and most transformational versions of the selves we have been, who we are today, and the people we are always already in the process of becoming.

zai outlaw (they/them) a Los Angeles native, and Portland resident since 2018 defines themselves as an interdisciplinary artist. Their artistic expressions explore the central theme of joy-centric world-building through the transmutation of fear. Utilizing the disciplines of graphic design, fiber arts, music, poetry, movement studies, clowning, and intuitive street performance. Zai is the creative director behind Black Acid Empire – a container for their transmutational works, and one-third of The Clown Mystics the Portland-based performance troupe in residence at the Coho Theater.

Walpurgisnacht “Inspired By The Master and Margarita”

Presented by Piper Tuor

June 27-29 Doors at 7pm Show at 7:30pm

The Devil strolls into town with his retinue of clowns. Together they orchestrate a world bending adventure through the past, the present, and the unknown. Those unlucky enough to be swept up in the chaos are changed forever.

Meet the Artist

As an artist, Piper Tuor strives to explore big ideas through non-traditional devices in order to provide viewers with abstract and thought provoking perspectives on life. Piper loves to use clown, music, and sound design to explore the world around them and share their feelings with others.

Harvest of Woman

Presented by Olga Kravtsova

July 4th and 5th Doors at 7pm Show at 7:30pm

July 6th Doors at 1:30pm Show at 2pm

Harvest of Woman is a visceral solo performance excavating the unseen labor, silence, and endurance that women carry—across generations, cultures, and expectations. Rooted in raw physical storytelling, the work moves between ritual, domesticity, and surrealism, refusing spectacle in favor of something more intimate and unsettling.

Built around the archetype of the “женщина-крепость” (Woman-Fortress)—a figure both nurturing and destructive—the performance blends movement, immersive sound, sculptural design, and live pottery installation to explore caregiving, survival, and personal rupture. A woman peels potatoes while whispering to her unborn child. A maid cracks a whip hidden beneath her skirt. A blind woman listens for a world she cannot see. Each figure emerges from a sculptural, fog- and light-filled world, shaped by internal pressure and ancestral weight.

Audience members enter through a tactile clay environment—a quiet threshold into the world of the piece. What follows is not a celebration, but a confrontation: with what’s buried, what cracks under pressure, and what surfaces when no one is watching.

Created and performed by Olga Kravtsova, with Jason Okamoto (sound/video), Duma Du (design), and K.C. Renee (live pottery installation). Developed in residence at CoHo Productions.

Meet the Artist

Olga Kravtsova is an actor, movement director, and self-producing artist based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work focuses on bringing raw, emotional stories to life—whether through acting in theater or film or creating original productions. As an actor, she draws from her training and the material at hand, immersing herself in the characters and the worlds they inhabit. As a movement director and self-producer, Olga crafts performances that use movement as a language to explore the untold and often overlooked aspects of human experience.