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This residency will be first time she taking the stage alone with her own words. This makes her feel rather vulnerable but I isn't that the point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1495806186768-9U961LQ20AF5DEW46JCT/jessica.jpg 2017 Residents - Jessica Stewart Jessica is a vocal performer, both in life and on stage. However her greatest goal is to be known as creator with who inspires others with her work and heart. An experienced playwright, director, producer and actress, Jessica is always looking for opportunities to move audiences towards new perspectives, stories and open doors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1495806273369-3B44YV5T3UGNB7N0TCL3/siobhan.jpg 2017 Residents - Siobhan McGrath A recent graduate from Grant High School Siobhan has been creating and performing original work for the better part of four years. 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Though stage acting is her first love, she’s also dabbled in film acting, and has worked as a background actor on TNT’s The Librarians and Netflix’s Everything Sucks! Favorite Stage Credits Include: Kitty Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Company Member (The Laramie Project), Cherie (Bus Stop), and Corin (As You Like It). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1549391424257-81ZJ7RWIV42R7NWLH4JK/evelyn.jpg 2018 Residents - Evelyn Elston Evelyn has lived in Beaverton all her life and is preparing to attend Gonzaga University in the fall. 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Motivated by the dearth of representation of minority communities, Alanna focuses her work on filling those holes with a new perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1550521872027-6AWGRE4MLLO9RN8UJVGE/Cortney+Grant+Headshot.JPG 2019 Residents - Cortney Grant Cortney recently moved up here from Eugene, Oregon. She is currently a junior studying theatre at Portland State University. Cortney has been performing since she was nine. Some of her favorite shows include: The Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), Sound of Music (Liesl), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), and Cabaret (Kit Kat Girl). Cortney is new to the world of creating art, and is so grateful for this opportunity. She thanks Katherine, Deborah, Avery, and the wonderful residents for making this experience so special. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1551806879287-FX6TC9DR195JX1VFYT3B/Hannah.jpg 2019 Residents - Hannah Strawn Hannah Strawn is originally from New Mexico and now considers herself a proud Oregonian transfer. She is currently finishing two undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Theatre. She looks forward to continuing professional training in theatre and eventually pursuing a post-graduate degree in Psychology for clinical practice. Her recent roles have been Blanche Ingram (Jane Eyre The Musical), Evie (Tongue of a Bird), and Hermia (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). 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She loves intersectional feminism, cancelling plans, and making new work. After receiving her BA in Theatre from Lewis & Clark College, Kushi has performed locally and abroad, most recently appearing in and facilitating a bilingual production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Parrabbola) at the International Shakespeare Festival Craiova in Romania. Recent Portland credits include The Chekov Symposium (PETE), “The Events” (Third Rail), and “Exodo” (Milagro). Kushi sings with local a cappella group B-Side Book Club, and would like to pet your dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1550522047833-4GOYKM2OM90X5OPOFN8K/IMG_1503+%281%29.jpeg 2019 Residents - Leilani Oleari Leilani has been involved in theatre all her life. Her mentors include her former voice teacher Carolyn Wolf, her acting coach Beth McBrien, and a miriad of individuals who have trickled in and out of her life. 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Amber Fares / Hosted by From The Ground UP April 30th / Doors @6:30pm / Event @7pm TICKETS $15 THE EXPERIENCE Join us for COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! A documentary following Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. Raised in a bilingual Israeli-Palestinian village — the only intentionally integrated community in the country — Noam grows disillusioned with traditional peace activism. She pivots to stand-up and quickly attracts attention across the Middle East. But as her star rises, everything around her falls apart. With biting satire, Noam pushes her audiences to face difficult truths that aren't always funny but do remind us that another reality is possible. 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Join us September 20th, for our annual fundraiser - the evening will include our UN’Capitali$t Cabaret, wine from Pairing’s Wine Shop, Taco’s from Por Que No and much much much MORE! 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Alumni We are so deeply thrilled to have such a vast and rich community of alumni. From London to Kansas City to right here in Portland our alumni go on to do so many wonderful things both in the world of art and beyond! Once you are member of the From the Ground UP community our doors are always open to you. Learn more about each of them here! https://www.fromthegrounduppdx.net/our-mission-our-team-copy daily 0.75 2026-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/d265e085-ea0e-4fa3-8f2d-605e07ff7563/Screenshot+2022-01-04+at+12.09.00+AM.png Our Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/fb3ed35e-2cc3-4dc6-b1b4-1de774f4ca98/2018-09-12+14.11.15.jpg Our Team - Katherine Murphy Lewis Founder & Artistic Director Katherine Murphy Lewis is the creative architect behind From the Ground Up — a director and dramaturg whose penchant for experimentation has produced award-winning performances, launched viable artistic careers, and redefined what an incubation model can look like in the American theater landscape. Lewis works fluidly across contemporary dance, physical storytelling, comedy, and devised performance. Under her direction, resident artist Andrea Parson won the Best Physical Theater award at the Fall United Solo Festival 2024 in New York City for You Can’t Be Serious — a four-year collaboration hailed as “real and raw yet polished and top-tier” (All About Solo, NYC). Her work has been recognized for putting “distinctive voices center stage” and embodying a “rejection of patriarchal standards” (Willamette Week). Lewis grew up in Ashland, Oregon — her mother working the box office at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, making theater accessible to a family “living very close to the edge.” That proximity to both art and precarity shaped everything that followed: the conviction that creativity belongs to everyone, the refusal to accept gatekeeping as inevitable, and ultimately the responsive, non-linear curriculum she spent ten years building at FTGU. Her formal training spans physical theater, mask, and clown at Dell’Arte International, devised touring work with Company of Wolves out of Glasgow, and theater arts at Southern Oregon University. She is currently developing The End, an immersive exploration of grief built from audio recordings made during her father’s fifteen-month journey with terminal cancer, in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize finalist Amanda Gronich. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/37a0bbfd-d127-47e2-9efa-682327bb31db/Arwen+headshot+2022.jpg Our Team - Arwen Curry Development Director Arwen Curry is the director/producer of Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, which was nominated for a Hugo Award and broadcast on PBS American Masters, the BBC, and Sweden's SVT. Since its premiere in 2018, the film has screened for festival and community audiences across the U.S. and more than two dozen countries worldwide. Arwen's 2023 project The Journey That Matters, published in installments on Literaryhub.com, includes six additional short films about Le Guin's life and work. In 2022, Arwen was an ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellow with support from the NEH. Before that, she helped produce EAMES: The Architect & The Painter, Regarding Susan Sontag, American Jerusalem: Jews & The Making of San Francisco, several films for KQED, and other projects. As a writer and consultant, she advises documentary filmmakers on grants, scripts, and proposals. Arwen is a former editor of the punk magazine Maximum Rock‘n’Roll and a graduate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in San Francisco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/aad29b09-acf2-4bef-a172-08d5ad59e045/IMG_2557+-+Aberdeen+Stuart.JPG Our Team - Aberdeen Stuart Program Assistant Portland born and raised, Aberdeen Stuart has explored countless mediums through the years. In the visual arts, they explored culture and tradition through pen and ink drawings of Scandinavian folk objects as an ode to their heritage. Aberdeen began performing in a Swedish youth folk dance group as a child and has loved the stage ever since. In July 2024 as a part of the first Bodyvox adult recreational summer intensive, they developed a drag persona Deenie Weenie and opened the show with a lip sync number. Playing with gender and identity, they continue to develop visual and performance art now. https://www.fromthegrounduppdx.net/workshops-intensives daily 0.75 2026-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1722383880293-VVI7M460YSCGBZP3IPRZ/2019-04-24+15.49.20.jpg Workshops & Intensives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/324397c5-1097-41cc-9888-e8cea95a5302/Screenshot+2026-01-14+at+6.05.30%E2%80%AFPM.png Workshops & Intensives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/7112f12d-844e-4f1d-9cea-cf3d70b8b10d/Screenshot+2025-03-23+at+11.32.22%E2%80%AFAM.png Workshops & Intensives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/e78063ee-2ec2-4c5a-b0cd-83059fc50967/Screenshot+2026-03-04+at+2.55.21%E2%80%AFPM.png Workshops & Intensives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.fromthegrounduppdx.net/202324-residents daily 0.75 2025-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/52e5919c-5aec-4d41-a3ec-6333dfefbcaf/2018-09-20+20.10.30.jpg 2023/24 Residents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/35ce2d83-4e12-4e3e-95a7-bdad1eada4a6/AsteriaHoward+headshot+1.jpg 2023/24 Residents Asteria Howard Photo courtesy of Marina Green Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/e2deb5bb-34b4-4056-b354-56ec7c7a27bc/Headshot+copy.png 2023/24 Residents Tori Farias https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/2014d096-010e-4ef2-a617-c1f62bc8129a/image0.jpeg 2023/24 Residents Nikki Flinn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/1570220264836-V2YI6YPVJMDXD29JFW0C/46777656_2225782440799834_9052704630810607616_n.jpg 2023/24 Residents - Make it stand out Marty Honig https://www.fromthegrounduppdx.net/artist-in-residents daily 0.75 2026-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/b575e570-eac8-477e-893b-ff77a2dc842c/11_08_23_YouCantBeSerious-47.JPG Artist in Residents https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/57596ae3-035e-4571-9c56-c9e637b67d95/Kate-171+-+Kate+Holly.jpg Artist in Residents - Kate Holly Kate Sanderson Holly (aka “Hollynitski”) is an applied theater artist, transformational coach, host of “The Space Beyond Scarce” podcast, and former founding member of Fever Theater and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, and is currently working towards a Master's in Counseling at Lewis and Clark College. Her work explores the intersection of theatrical forms, personal growth, social change, and whatever subject she is currently hyper-focused on. You can learn more about her at www.kateholly.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/de35449b-c041-4791-a6c3-52e38eea9965/Maia+McCarthy+-+Maia+McCarthy.jpg Artist in Residents - Maia McCarthy Maia McCarthy is a facilitator, teaching artist and performer who brings a daring spirit of play and dedication to creating a sense of belonging to every project they are a part of. Maia connects decades of experience in community building, coaching, and creative expression to provide clients with one of a kind services. They offer off the menu workshops as well as custom and collaboratively designed experiences to meet the needs of your organization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/6fb5ca78-627e-4e50-9a79-0f96e5be7c51/Me+at+the+Temple+of+Athena+-+Katheryn+S.jpg Artist in Residents - Katheryn Shamrell Katheryn is an actress, writer, US Army veteran and linguist, who extensively used her languages working with refugees and immigrants from around the world in her career. Before retiring in 2020, she started to study theater in order to indulge her secret passion for acting Shakespeare. She has lived in Panama, Germany and Russia and travelled around the world with her latest adventure a first time trip to Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/633b9f04-a477-438a-871c-5f4e378277c3/Screenshot+2026-04-12+at+7.29.20%E2%80%AFPM.png Artist in Residents - Monique Barbee After receiving her BFA from Southern Oregon University and her MFA from Yale and a subsequent stretch in NYC - Monique found herself consumed by the machine that is the entertainment industry. And so she did what she must, and left! Now, ten years later she is walking back into an artistic space - but this time on her terms! Having met Katherine ( our founding Artistic Director) during their undergraduate years at Southern Oregon University she jumped at the chance to collaborate again. She’s grateful to return to a space that is process oriented and grounded in community, generosity, and shared process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/44b3dcaa-14bd-49cf-89a7-c34e8acb326d/IMG_6626.jpeg Artist in Residents - Rob Aley Rob Aley is a middle school teacher and writer with a deep passion for performance and the arts. With a background in theater, he has brought a range of characters to life on stage, including a notable performance as John Proctor in The Crucible. His experience spans numerous workshops and productions, exploring styles from Shakespearean classics to postmodern movement work. Rob’s creative practice blends education and performance, allowing him to inspire students while continuing to develop his own voice as both an artist and storyteller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/039d5056-e0ce-46ae-a454-87e94b8050d6/IMG_9800+-+Rachel+Slater.JPG Artist in Residents - Rachel Slater Rachel Slater is an interdisciplinary artist working across dance, film, and storytelling. Based in Portland, Oregon, she maintains a strong connection to New Orleans, where she serves as Director of Dance Film at BODYART’s International Dance Festival NOLA. She is also the co-Artistic Director of Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance, alongside Suzanne Chi. A graduate of the former University of the Arts, Rachel has performed for Minh Tran & Company, Franco Nieto, Tracey Durbin, Carla Mann, and BODYART, among many others. She is an alumna and former faculty member of the Jefferson Dancers, and a dedicated mentor to young artists. Her choreographic work has been presented across the Pacific Northwest and nationally, in cities such as Detroit, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, as well as internationally in Amsterdam and Melbourne. Dance films created with Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance have screened in 25 countries and at over 45 festivals worldwide, earning multiple awards. Rachel’s creative work orients around visceral, textural movement and the excavation of memory and emotion. A Resident Artist at FLOCK Dance Center and 2024 Miller Foundation Spark Awardee, she is currently developing her first evening-length solo, Daughter Debris. She is offering workshops at the Portland Grief House, and will be a 2026 From the Ground Up Resident. Rachel believes that artmaking can be a radical, humanist act—one that supports and amplifies stories, deepens empathy, and builds community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/eb0b429e-fb6b-411e-bee6-85c08cf24b7b/image3.jpeg Artist in Residents - Laura Cannon Laura Cannon is a dancer, choreographer and educator with over 25 years of experience in site-specific dance and innovative practices beyond traditional stages. She founded ProLab Dance in 2019 to support her multidisciplinary performance visions. Cannon has been recognized and awarded for her work as a dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker and costume designer. She received the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2023 and served as a Dance Wire PDX Ambassador in 2021-22. 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If we follow the valley upstream, will we find mountain meadows of hope? From Colorado to Yosemite Valley to the center of the Earth, dancer and storyteller Lisa Swartz takes viewers across raw landscapes of longing, mystery, and adventure to find elusive jewels of insight and fulfillment revealed by the only by turning tides of time. Ready your heart for this unique and spirited ode to all voyagers still quietly searching for home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/9dada39a-a005-433e-b007-627ec4a2656a/Screenshot+2025-05-05+at+7.22.04%E2%80%AFPM.png More More More : Festival of New Works - Ripples in Contrasting Light By Meredith Sevy What lies in between? What lies at the edges? Why does it matter? Meredith sees the contrast of extremes, reflects on one discovery of loving herself, and invites the audience to consider how they live within their body and love themselves. She seeks to push comfort zones, not to increase discomfort but instead to expand those zones, to discover and create more comfort in new places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/d197b3e0-bb17-461b-acb2-c759f56d29f2/image+%281%29.png More More More : Festival of New Works - Samudāya By Sidney Novak Samudāya is a multimedia performance that viscerally depicts the phenomenon of compulsive thought and behavior, which ranges from the ritual cycles of religion to individual compulsive thought, and explores the conflict between free will and predetermined action, revealing the inescapability of patterned and cyclical behavior and how it governs us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/a8d4c68e-c1e5-4440-a72a-6b4c7c2428b6/why+are+you+so+quiet+copy.png More More More : Festival of New Works - Why are you so quiet? By Danielle Higbee Who are You? How would your family describe you? Your friends? How would you describe You? Does the truth lie somewhere in the difference? Can multiple truths coexist? Why are you so quiet is a live memoir exploring identity and how it fluctuates over a life. This piece is a speculation on the fringes between inner and outer experience. Through reflection and autobiographical storytelling, Danielle questions who has the control in deciding who You are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/8081237b-8656-4a2b-a15c-9f72ff949d7e/Screenshot+2025-05-05+at+7.32.54%E2%80%AFPM.png More More More : Festival of New Works - You’re the One in Here By: Sophina Flores "You're the One in Here" a new musical with lyrics by Sophina Flores and music by Daye Thomas. Three children, Lorena, Jem, and Gia live in a hallway where shadows stretch too long and doors don’t always lead where they should. In a bedroom with the door removed. At a dining table where silence carries more weight than words. Something is always watching, always waiting. They learn that fear can be inherited. They sense something in the dark but are told it isn’t there. The right things feel so, so wrong, and fractured lullabies evoke the childhood they never get to have. Everyone’s parents are like this. Déjà vu. They turn around and realize that the thing they were running from was inside the house all along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/f85ac14b-3d5c-4fba-8b70-3166c4e01ac3/Screenshot_20250412-183021+%281%29.png More More More : Festival of New Works - Water Makes Me Honest By Maddy Schultz Water Makes Me Honest weaves together personal narrative, movement, and ecology into a meditation on identity, memory, and transformation. Through storytelling and play, Maddy explores their nonbinary experience alongside the quiet resilience of fungi and the healing properties of water. With moments of confession and historical reflection, the piece blurs the lines between past and present, science and spirit, isolation and connection. From Catholic school to Tonka trucks, the journey is as expansive as it is intimate. This piece asks the audience; What rules are you still following? What happens when you let them go? Water Makes Me Honest is a celebration of fluidity, queerness, and becoming—a love letter to soft rebellion and the evolving self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/762f4ab3-42b4-4566-9aa5-132c0e07f061/image0+%281%29.png More More More : Festival of New Works - First Times By Laura Cannon Of course, we all know there is a first time for everything, but have you ever considered that anything can be a first time for something? In First Times Laura Cannon will guide you through the mental gymnastics that she uses to keep dreaming big even when the road ahead doesn’t look all that promising. A parfait of humor, movement and hazy Slacker-era memories, First Times will ask the heavy questions and answer none of them. At least it will be fun. Hey, if the existential dread doesn’t get us, the high-fructose corn syrup certainly will. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/0a1283f8-cd9b-4b8f-977a-d05d681b7303/Screenshot+2025-05-05+at+7.49.51%E2%80%AFPM.png More More More : Festival of New Works - Delicious Poison By Katheryn Shamrell This piece follows Katheryn on her journey through life inspired by her mother and accompanied by Shakespeare. 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In the visual arts, they explored culture and tradition through pen and ink drawings of Scandinavian folk objects as an ode to their heritage. Aberdeen began performing in a Swedish youth folk dance group as a child and has loved the stage ever since. In July 2024 as a part of the first Bodyvox adult recreational summer intensive, they developed a drag persona Deenie Weenie and opened the show with a lip sync number. Playing with gender and identity, they continue to develop visual and performance art now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/93c5db9c-3eea-47e0-ad01-cbb8bfd33d12/D%2BTaboo+-+Danielle+Higbee.jpg 2025 Artist Residency - Danielle Higbee Danielle, 28, relocated to Portland, Oregon in September of 2021. Prior to this move, she lived the first quarter of her life in Pennsylvania where she cultivated a love of dance and the outdoors. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from Allegheny College, a small liberal arts school, in 2018. While an undergraduate, she studied Environmental Studies, philosophy, and dance and movement studies. She was heavily involved in service organizations focusing on engagement with local businesses and community members as well as all dance organizations of various styles on campus. Between graduation and moving to PDX, she worked many jobs; waitress, sewing machine operator, caregiver, and retail associate at a plant shop. All the while attempting to figure out what exactly she wanted to "do." Her move to Portland was motivated by her desire to obtain a Master in Public Health, with a focus on Environmental Systems and Human Health. She attended the Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/6fb5ca78-627e-4e50-9a79-0f96e5be7c51/Me+at+the+Temple+of+Athena+-+Katheryn+S.jpg 2025 Artist Residency - Katheryn Shamrell Katheryn is an actress, writer, US Army veteran and linguist, who extensively used her languages working with refugees and immigrants from around the world in her career. Before retiring in 2020, she started to study theater in order to indulge her secret passion for acting Shakespeare. She has lived in Panama, Germany and Russia and travelled around the world with her latest adventure a first time trip to Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/6306dbac-e7ad-4482-984b-107a466e4783/Flores+Headshot+-+Sophina+Flores.png 2025 Artist Residency - Sophina Flores Sophina Flores (She/Her) directed Liminal, The Between Spaces and Ritual Treatment at Roots and All Theatre Ensemble. Recently she has worked as an Assistant Lighting Designer to Marika Kent at Portland Center Stage, and designed lights at Bag and Baggage, Passinart, Salt and Sage, The Actor's Conservatory, FUSE, Oregon Children's Theater, From the Ground Up, Crave, Lewis and Clark, Hand2Mouth, Profile, and Artists Repertory Theater. Other directing credits include Arsonists, Rancho Trinidad, The F-Word, Wedding Grift, Little Women, A Slight Ache, Romeo and Juliet, and Noises Off! As a theatre maker, playwright, deviser, and choreographer, her work centers the intersectionality of identities as a neurodivergent, bisexual Puerto Rican woman, and prominently features themes of mental illness and trauma, with surrealist or magical realist motifs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/b3d3fd9a-9c86-4d23-bb56-77913ab738e5/1O8A5651+-+Laura+Cannon.jpeg 2025 Artist Residency - Laura Cannon Laura Cannon is a dancer, choreographer and educator with over 25 years of experience in site-specific dance and innovative practices beyond traditional stages. She founded ProLab Dance in 2019 to support her multidisciplinary performance visions. Cannon has been recognized and awarded for her work as a dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker and costume designer. She received the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2023 and served as a Dance Wire PDX Ambassador in 2021-22. She is based in Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/ded28641-c07a-4ce5-bf5f-aca12800113a/2024_petlewski_headshotsession-20+-+Leiana+Petlewski.JPG 2025 Artist Residency - Leiana Petlewski Leiana (they/them) is a Portland based actor, dancer, theatre maker, choreographer, 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. Previous 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 previously worked as a guest resident choreographer for Pacific University and 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/a461054f-5a5b-41a4-ab72-d4b69e3ad23c/lisa-waterfalls-forest-4.29.24-1310+-+Lisa+Swartz.jpg 2025 Artist Residency - Lisa Swartz Whether Lisa is busting a joke or a dance move, one thing is for sure: you want to be watching. Born and raised in Denver, CO with a background ranging from physics to rock climbing to aerial dance to entrepreneurship, Portland-based performing artist Lisa Swartz has found humor and emotional vulnerability to be two of the best raw materials for building bridges across disparate worlds. You won’t want to miss this emerging artist make her live stage solo debut at From the Ground Up for her unique style of storytelling through movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/35574e7e-ab1e-4511-9a62-a83203d16311/Screenshot_20241125-221940+-+Madaleine+Schultz.png 2025 Artist Residency - Maddy Schultz Maddy Schultz (they/them) is a Theatre Arts graduate from Portland State University with a focus on performance. Their interests also include writing, sound, lighting, as well as theatre operations. Maddy has been involved in many facets of theatre, from working as a PA and board op for Profile Theatre, to writing two autobiographical devised pieces in the From the Ground Up Residency in 2020 and 2021, and performing in plays at PSU. Maddy completed the Third Rail Mentorship program as well, where they had the opportunity to study Clowning, Viewpoints, Meisner, and get hands-on experience with tech professionals. Maddy recently completed the Form: Language, Body, & Breath six week workshop with Katherine Murphy Lewis and Andrea Parson. They are excited to be a part of the 2025 From the Ground Up Residency. Maddy hopes to continue learning and growing as an actor and writer! Maddy’s work has a focus on the lived experiences of a fat, queer, nonbinary person in their journey to understand the world and themselves with a neurodivergent brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/c0798a52-3c6e-4711-a8b1-20a9dcf85e84/20240826_123438+-+Meredith+Sevy.jpg 2025 Artist Residency - Meredith Sevy Meredith (she/they) is a self-proclaimed dabbler in nerd-doms, a dancer, a life long learner, a citizen of the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/cdad3bbf-4c8a-4465-800b-a52abb0fea2c/IMG_4086+-+Sam+Cruz.jpg 2025 Artist Residency - Sam Cruz Samantha Cruz is a dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter and dance teacher--born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her love for art began at an early age, inspired by the many artists in her life including her parents and brothers. 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In the visual arts, they explored culture and tradition through pen and ink drawings of Scandinavian folk objects as an ode to their heritage. Aberdeen began performing in a Swedish youth folk dance group as a child and has loved the stage ever since. In July 2024 as a part of the first Bodyvox adult recreational summer intensive, they developed a drag persona Deenie Weenie and opened the show with a lip sync number. Playing with gender and identity, they continue to develop visual and performance art now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/93c5db9c-3eea-47e0-ad01-cbb8bfd33d12/D%2BTaboo+-+Danielle+Higbee.jpg Artist in Residents 2025 - Danielle Higbee Danielle, 28, relocated to Portland, Oregon in September of 2021. Prior to this move, she lived the first quarter of her life in Pennsylvania where she cultivated a love of dance and the outdoors. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from Allegheny College, a small liberal arts school, in 2018. While an undergraduate, she studied Environmental Studies, philosophy, and dance and movement studies. She was heavily involved in service organizations focusing on engagement with local businesses and community members as well as all dance organizations of various styles on campus. Between graduation and moving to PDX, she worked many jobs; waitress, sewing machine operator, caregiver, and retail associate at a plant shop. All the while attempting to figure out what exactly she wanted to "do." Her move to Portland was motivated by her desire to obtain a Master in Public Health, with a focus on Environmental Systems and Human Health. She attended the Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/6fb5ca78-627e-4e50-9a79-0f96e5be7c51/Me+at+the+Temple+of+Athena+-+Katheryn+S.jpg Artist in Residents 2025 - Katheryn Shamrell Katheryn is an actress, writer, US Army veteran and linguist, who extensively used her languages working with refugees and immigrants from around the world in her career. Before retiring in 2020, she started to study theater in order to indulge her secret passion for acting Shakespeare. She has lived in Panama, Germany and Russia and travelled around the world with her latest adventure a first time trip to Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/6306dbac-e7ad-4482-984b-107a466e4783/Flores+Headshot+-+Sophina+Flores.png Artist in Residents 2025 - Sophina Flores Sophina Flores (She/Her) directed Liminal, The Between Spaces and Ritual Treatment at Roots and All Theatre Ensemble. Recently she has worked as an Assistant Lighting Designer to Marika Kent at Portland Center Stage, and designed lights at Bag and Baggage, Passinart, Salt and Sage, The Actor's Conservatory, FUSE, Oregon Children's Theater, From the Ground Up, Crave, Lewis and Clark, Hand2Mouth, Profile, and Artists Repertory Theater. Other directing credits include Arsonists, Rancho Trinidad, The F-Word, Wedding Grift, Little Women, A Slight Ache, Romeo and Juliet, and Noises Off! As a theatre maker, playwright, deviser, and choreographer, her work centers the intersectionality of identities as a neurodivergent, bisexual Puerto Rican woman, and prominently features themes of mental illness and trauma, with surrealist or magical realist motifs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/b3d3fd9a-9c86-4d23-bb56-77913ab738e5/1O8A5651+-+Laura+Cannon.jpeg Artist in Residents 2025 - Laura Cannon Laura Cannon is a dancer, choreographer and educator with over 25 years of experience in site-specific dance and innovative practices beyond traditional stages. She founded ProLab Dance in 2019 to support her multidisciplinary performance visions. Cannon has been recognized and awarded for her work as a dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker and costume designer. She received the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 2023 and served as a Dance Wire PDX Ambassador in 2021-22. She is based in Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/ded28641-c07a-4ce5-bf5f-aca12800113a/2024_petlewski_headshotsession-20+-+Leiana+Petlewski.JPG Artist in Residents 2025 - Leiana Petlewski Leiana (they/them) is a Portland based actor, dancer, theatre maker, choreographer, 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. Previous 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 previously worked as a guest resident choreographer for Pacific University and 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/a461054f-5a5b-41a4-ab72-d4b69e3ad23c/lisa-waterfalls-forest-4.29.24-1310+-+Lisa+Swartz.jpg Artist in Residents 2025 - Lisa Swartz Whether Lisa is busting a joke or a dance move, one thing is for sure: you want to be watching. Born and raised in Denver, CO with a background ranging from physics to rock climbing to aerial dance to entrepreneurship, Portland-based performing artist Lisa Swartz has found humor and emotional vulnerability to be two of the best raw materials for building bridges across disparate worlds. You won’t want to miss this emerging artist make her live stage solo debut at From the Ground Up for her unique style of storytelling through movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/35574e7e-ab1e-4511-9a62-a83203d16311/Screenshot_20241125-221940+-+Madaleine+Schultz.png Artist in Residents 2025 - Maddy Schultz Maddy Schultz (they/them) is a Theatre Arts graduate from Portland State University with a focus on performance. Their interests also include writing, sound, lighting, as well as theatre operations. Maddy has been involved in many facets of theatre, from working as a PA and board op for Profile Theatre, to writing two autobiographical devised pieces in the From the Ground Up Residency in 2020 and 2021, and performing in plays at PSU. Maddy completed the Third Rail Mentorship program as well, where they had the opportunity to study Clowning, Viewpoints, Meisner, and get hands-on experience with tech professionals. Maddy recently completed the Form: Language, Body, & Breath six week workshop with Katherine Murphy Lewis and Andrea Parson. They are excited to be a part of the 2025 From the Ground Up Residency. Maddy hopes to continue learning and growing as an actor and writer! Maddy’s work has a focus on the lived experiences of a fat, queer, nonbinary person in their journey to understand the world and themselves with a neurodivergent brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/c0798a52-3c6e-4711-a8b1-20a9dcf85e84/20240826_123438+-+Meredith+Sevy.jpg Artist in Residents 2025 - Meredith Sevy Meredith (she/they) is a self-proclaimed dabbler in nerd-doms, a dancer, a life long learner, a citizen of the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/592823ef893fc05d10efdd59/cdad3bbf-4c8a-4465-800b-a52abb0fea2c/IMG_4086+-+Sam+Cruz.jpg Artist in Residents 2025 - Sam Cruz Samantha Cruz is a dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter and dance teacher--born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her love for art began at an early age, inspired by the many artists in her life including her parents and brothers. 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