ICP CLASS OF 2025

London Bauman is an actor, musician, sound designer and library cardholder from Portland. Recent work includes The Delays, Map of Virtue and Stupid Ghost (Theatre Vertigo), Ghosted (OCT), and Shopping and Fucking (independently produced by Annabel Cantor). As an artist he is interested in the blending of forms and a recognition of what the audience brings into a performance space. He holds a BS in Theatre from Portland State University and has studied at Dell'Arte International and The Actor's Conservatory. His solo music can be found on streaming platforms under the names Lond and ellar B.

Johnathan Billington (they/them) is a theatre artist, storyteller, designer, and mover. They love to "collect" hobbies, spend time outdoors, play TTRPGs, and sit bundled in a blanket while heavy rain hammers at the walls and windows. Johnathan's work has been seen at Broadway Rose, FUSE Theatre Ensemble, Portland Playhouse, and Imagine Theatre. They are also the technical director and technical theatre teacher at Clackamas High School. At present, Johnathan is particularly interested in attention and connection. They are exploring how the corporate capture of our intention impairs our capacity to connect with others and see them as complex human beings rather than a collection of beliefs and assumptions.

Jenny Donaldson (they/them)  is a Portland based actor, scenic/props & costume designer, and deviser. Since graduating with their BA in theatre, they've enjoyed doing projects with Gather Repertory, Speculative Drama, and recently acting in the Fertile Ground Festival. Jenny has been making experimental and movement based art since 2019, and has additionally trained in pole, ballet, and other dance styles, (plus a bit of trapeze!) Jenny is excited to deepen their training and expand their work with ICP, and especially for the opportunity to train in the art of clown 🤡. In addition to their artistic career, Jenny works as a social worker for at-risk youth.

Ryan Edlinger is a storyteller at heart, and he’s not picky about how - on stage, on camera, on mic, or just rolling dice in a dimly lit basement. He received his BFA in Theatre from Salem State University, and journeyed all over the United States before landing in Portland, OR where spends most of his downtime daydreaming and riding his bike.  Some favorite past projects include: Fire on the Water and TITUS: A Grand and Gory Rock Musical with Cleveland Public Theatre, the interactive science fiction thriller Don’t Wander Off with Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, and True Believers with Vagabond Theatre Group.

Adam Fleming is an east coast theater maker, performer, and educator new to Portland having spent the past twenty years in New York City. In 2018 he formed Two Way Radio, a theatrical collaborative, with director Christopher Murrah. Collaborating on Toe Pick, a fully transcribed play with music at the legendary Dixon Place on NYC’s Lower East Side and a never before seen production of West Side Story with the Sioux City Symphony housing both a fully staged production with all new choreography and a forty-piece orchestra on the same stage. He was honored by being Dance Lab NY’s inaugural “Connect” choreographer as well as being invited to show work at NY Theatre Barn’s Choreographer’s Lab. His work can be seen on Netflix in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival stand out, Dick Johnson is Dead. Over the past two years, he was the resident director for several of Holland America Line’s Grand Voyages producing nearly twenty different shows across four oceans and five continents. Favorite performing credits include: Hairspray (Sketch, original Broadway cast, Neil Simon Theatre), Wicked (Boq, Chicago’s Oriental Theatre & Ensemble/Boq us, Gershwin Theatre), bare: a pop opera (Lucas, Off-Broadway premier) Film: Dare (Ben, directed by Adam Salky) and its sequel, The Dare Project, which premiered at San Francisco’s Frameline42 Festival. www.AlphaHotelFoxtrot.com

Valentine Keck (she/her) is an actor, writer and aspiring director (or clown) based in Portland, OR. She has a classical education in theatre and has spent much of her career on a very traditional theatrical path. She is thrilled, therefore, to be diving into the world of experimental theatre with PETE. Val has nascent dreams of a devised-Shakespeare clown troupe, and is very curious about marrying her devotion to performance-art with community-building and justice work. She lives with her girlfriend in a cabin in the woods where she bakes sourdough and reads too many books.

Ruby Keyes is from the San Fernando Valley in Southern California. She moved to Portland for school during the pandemic and studied performance and mathematics at Lewis & Clark College. Years of experience in the theatre led to Ruby’s thesis role as co-lead artist and designer for a retelling of Stephen King’s Misery. It was through this lens that she investigated the politics of Anne Wilkes being performed by a Black actor, and ultimately study the possibilities offered through Black horror. She’s worked with PETE before as a documentarian for Cardiac Organ. Ruby joined ICP because although realism is their bread and butter, they find the process of experimental theatre to be more freeing and interesting. And in November, Ruby will be performing in a new play titled The Roaring 20’s written by Griffin Flowers and directed by fellow cohort member Ezri Galban Reyes.

Emily Laue is a filmmaker and theater-maker currently based in Portland, OR. She has a BFA in Theatre Acting from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Film Directing from‬ Stony Brook/Killer Films. Focusing mainly on art for screens in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and‬ most recently, Portland, she has worked on independent features and shorts, and music videos‬ as an AD, director, actor and producer. Films she has worked on have screened at Palm Springs,‬ Whistler, MoMA, Bend, Anthology Film Archives and more. After dipping her toe back on to the‬ stage as an associate member of The Actor’s Gang in Culver City, California she is now elated and optimistically terrified to be back to exploring the world of live theatre at ICP. When not‬ pondering the nature of art and humanity she watches strange indie films and runs out into the wilderness as often as she can.

 

Nikki Montana (she/they) is a 1st-Gen Fil-Am in the diaspora whose current research seeks to produce live performances from the crux of art&activism&animism to continue the conversations that are cultivating a culture capable of holding multitudes and embodying visionary intuition. Previously based in the midwest, Nikki performed, choreographed, taught, & produced for theatres and schools including CCT, Available Light, Stageworks Houston, The Contemporary, Weathervane Playhouse, Dayton TheatreLab, All-Ohio Thespians. Favorite roles: Yitzhak (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH), Jenny/Edna (MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY), Olivia (SEX WITH STRANGERS), Christmas Eve (AVENUE Q). They are a proud member of Actors Equity.

Ezri Galban Reyes is a vibes-based artist born in the 408 where he was raised by his family, community, and the land. She is currently living in Portland and resides in the Muppet Museum where she also cuts and colors hair. At their former college, they were a resident advisor, student art center co-manager, and improv team co-captain. Since graduating in 2022, they have performed in PETE's The Americans and Cardiac Organ and Third Rail’s Sanctuary City. Ez has recently joined Anakbayan East and is hoping to incorporate their studies and skills from ICP into organizing spaces. He is passionate about collaborative theatre-making as a container for chaos and research. And right now, she’s cooking up some BANGERS (music) with her dear friend Rocco Weyer in their band Cheek Chub. 

Mary Shoen is a multimedia performance artist who creates art as a somatic transmission. Shoen strives to move into spaces of transformation and intimacy by discovering radical approaches to human encounter utilizing the expressive arts. Shoen was raised in Reno, Nevada where she studied dance and voice until moving to New York City where she began exploring and studying various creative avenues and disciplines, both experimental and traditional. She ended up landing at Naropa University, in Boulder Colorado, where she completed her BA in Visual Arts with an emphasis in performance. Shoen has actualized numerous live group and solo performances, as well working as a teaching Artist through Street Wise Arts in Boulder, Colorado. She is incredibly grateful and excited to have landed in Portland with ICP and looks forward to discovering ways to clarify and distill her art making in order to come into courageous communication with herself and the world around her.

Niels Truman (he/him) is a playwright and theatre-maker based in Portland, Oregon. He holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre and English from Lewis & Clark College where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with honors. His produced work includes Honesty Box, The Third Place, It’s All About Pumpkin, Sasha & Carlyle Make a TikTok, Code Serpent, and The Announcement. In April of 2024, he and his collaborator Duncan Kass produced a staged reading of their original musical Sam's 21st as part of the Fertile Ground Festival. Niels is a resident playwright at Northwest Theatre Workshop and a box office and marketing associate for Third Rail Repertory Theatre, as well as a graduate of their Mentorship program.