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2026 CoHo residency

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COHO RESIDENCY PROJECT

Produced by CoHo Productions
June 18- July 5th, 2026

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!

2026 CoHo Residency shows!

DOTTER

Written and Performed by Monel Chang

June 18-20th  Show at 7:30pm

June 21st Show at 5pm

Are you ready for the role of a lifetime?

Step into the audition room. In DOTTER, modern dating is stripped of its romantic facade and laid bare as the grueling, transactional Hollywood audition it truly is. Our manic, high-status Casting Director, is running an open call to cast the ultimate Lead: a Husband. Armed with impossible specs, somatic checks, and comedic chemistry reads, she is putting the audience to the test. Do you have the “Jeong” to pass the callback?

But beneath the clinical clipboard and the sharp, interactive satire lies a profound psychological drama. As the auditions progress, the sterile safety of the casting room begins to crack, revealing a deep maternal wound—a frayed umbilical cord, the burden of being a first-generation “Success Story,” and the phantom grief of a daughter left behind.

Alternating between manic theatrical clowning and raw, poetic storytelling, The Casting Call explores what happens when love has historically been modeled as a transaction. It’s a hilarious, heartbreaking examination of attachment, legacy, and the courage it takes to finally drop the script and ask: Can you handle Tuesday?

Please Note: This production features interactive audience participation. Bring your headshots, your emotional baggage, and prepare to be redirected.

Meet the Artist

Monel Chang is a Corean-born, PWN-based multidisciplinary artist, movement educator, and licensed naturopathic physician. Using the occasional clown moniker Moldy Melon, Chang creates comedic works that blur the lines between ritual, satire, and spiritual cabaret. Monel began as a durational performance artist (a single sustained activity) in 2010, and has since brought contact improvisation, butoh dance, and theatrical clown into their performance and teaching repertoire.

Monel has presented work at Portland Center Stage, Finnish Hall, Sh’bang Arts Festival, Freakdown Festival, Earthdance Creative Living, Secret Seed Improv Salon, 18th Street Arts Center, and the Electric Lodge. Monel performed, directed, and produced her first solo show at Shaking the Tree Theatre and is the 2026 CoHo Lab Residency Program artist, presenting her second solo show. 

You Got it Girl!

Written and Performed by

Kayla Kelly

June 26-27th  Show at 7:30pm &        June 27-28th Show at 2pm

YOU GOT IT, GIRL! GIRL, YOU GOT IT? IT GOT YOU, GIRL … 

This play explores the obstacle of working with yourself. What happens if you lean into “YES” even when your mind says “HECK NO”? Rather than slying self doubt like a dragon that causes havoc, this piece is about having a conversation with the beast of self-doubt / working together.

This show is dedicated to all the women in my life. I would make a list, but I’m afraid it would be longer than the show bio. Thank you for believing in me. Your sacrifices DO NOT go unnoticed. You are amazing and influential. YOU ARE THAT WOMAN, NEVER FORGET! 

Meet the Artist

Kayla Kelly is from Houston, Texas, and holds a Bachelor of Arts. Maybe you have seen her on stage at your local theatre, doing secret comedy shows around town, or in her most recurring role, working as a Front of House Manager at Portland Playhouse. Finding creation in everyday life is what keeps her life vibrant: she enjoys acting, teaching, dabbling in stand-up comedy, and writing. Thank you to everyone who has made this production possible. Thanks, Phil Johnson, for the positive peer pressure! Representation truly matters! Always be the light, you shine. Shout out to my mom, aka MAR MAR!

Lobotomommy

Written and Performed by

by Julia Bray

July 2-4th Show at 7:30pm

July 5th Show at 2pm 

“Can the perfect mommy be made?”
 
It’s a hot AI summer and your chatbot is crafting recipes for your two-year-old, psychoanalyzing your attachment style via your Spotify playlist, and reminding you to be a more regulated mom. When it tells you about a program designed to make you the mother you always wanted to be, you make a choice that will change you & your daughter forever.
 
Lobotomommy is a one-woman feminist sci-fi weaving dark comedy and dystopian horror into a story about human insecurity, the infinite desire to optimize, and the ancient ungovernable thing inside a mother that refuses to be fixed

Meet the Artist

Julia Bray is a renaissance human—an interdisciplinary creator, performing & teaching artist, astrologer & queer mom. Her work lives at the intersection of magic, comedy, ritual & clowning. 

A graduate of NYU Tisch, Julia’s professional credits as an actress span Off Broadway plays & musicals, television (Law and Order SVU, HBO’s How to Make it In America, Netflix’s Trinkets), and film—including stealing a pig from Nicolas Cage in Michael Sarnoski’s Pig (2021) and a featured role in the upcoming indie Via Negativa (2026, dir. Hannah Peterson). Julia’s own plays and solo shows have been seen at Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper, Theater in Asylum, The Habitat Theater Company, and CoHo Theater Lab. 

Julia is the co-creator and producer of All Boats, an multi-medium nomination based performance series that began in NYC in 2016 and has since become an seasonal offering with iterations in Los Angeles, Berlin, Mexico City, and Portland, OR. Since 2022, she has co-produced the Portland-based CoHo All Boats, as well as All Boats All Clowns at the CoHo Clown Festival where she’s known for her stand-up comedy goblin alter-ego “Renman.” As a director and producer, she has led music videos, multi-artist showcases, and commercial shoots, bringing bold visions to life across performance, film, and immersive spaces.

www.the-magic-is-you.com

www.julia-bray.com

@thejaybray

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