Meet the 2025 CoHo residents

Meet our 2025 CoHo Resident Artists

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.

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.

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.