trisha fey lazo elizarde-miller

Trisha Fey Lazo Elizarde-Miller is a proud Pin@y American, passionate about learning, teaching, and unveiling creative expression. Trisha supports embodied truth by facilitating trauma-sensitive movement practices, breath work, and asana. A mover for over 20 years, she has experience in a variety of dance styles and movement expressions with her origins going back to classical dance styles, high school drill/dance and contemporary dance. Trisha constantly finds new ways to grow her movement practice, unveil her personal truth. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy. Trisha practices living in her truth and living a life with no regrets by cuddling with her feisty and sweet chihuahua terrier, Pancit (Yes, the Filipino noodle dish), spending time in Oregon’s natural beauty, cooking GF food, shamelessly eating most meals with rice, and dancing and moving everyday (sometimes with high heels on).

subashini ganesan

Subashini Ganesan is an artist, arts administrator, and the Creative Laureate of Portland. Ganesan choreographs and performs potent and universally relevant expressions drawn from her foundation in Bharatanatyam. In 2010, Ganesan founded New Expressive Works (N.E.W.), a vibrant performing arts venue in Portland that celebrates multicultural independent performing artists who teach, are in residency, and create bold new works. Ganesan is a member of the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center's (IFCC) Community Advisory Committee and Portland Art Museum's Teacher Advisory Council. As Creative Laureate of Portland, Ganesan serves as the official ambassador for its broader creative community.

nicole gladwin

Nicole Gladwin (she/her) is mostly a stage manager, but every few years might be found in a performance. As a fond alumni of Many Hats' Rest Room she was delighted to join The November Project. Nicole is happy there's cool vaccine progress and an end in sight to being in a pandemic, because she misses in-person rehearsals, spending time in public, and sharing food inside of bars. She doesn't miss wearing hard pants. Hard pants days are probably over, friends. While wearing soft pants earlier this year Nicole became a certified COVID-19 Compliance Officer and Health Safety Supervisor (C19CO/HSS), which is not a credential she thought would generate the amusing variety of unsolicited email it does, and which she cannot wait to not have use for.

madeline harmon

Madeline is a liminal being navigating the process of finding home here on earth -- in their body, in their heart and with their feet in the sand. Madeline works as a professional listener and relational somatic guide. They received a Master's in Social Work from Portland State University. They have over 1000 hours of training in Yoga from Piedmont Yoga in Oakland, CA and Laughing Lotus in San Francisco, CA. They hone their ability to relate to their body, heart and the environment through the practices of Yoga, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Hakomi and Cultural Somatics. They navigate life through the lens of Black feminism and Afro/Indigenous psychology. They ask that you make an active practice of sending them and others the sincerest form of love you have in your heart. They wish to feel as free as they look in this photo by the time they hit their 40s. 

ash heffernan

Ash Heffernan is originally from Jacksonville, FL. She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a dual BA in Dramatic Art and Performance Studies. She has performed regionally in Life of Galileo (PlayMakers Repertory), The Wolves, A Christmas Carol, and Pipeline (u/s) (Portland Playhouse). She was a 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival Apprentice and a 2019/2020 Portland Playhouse Apprentice, which brought her to the PNW. She is represented by Big Fish NW Talent. She is particularly passionate about performance studies, new play development, and theatre for social justice. Black Lives Matter.

jessica hemingway

I am Jessica Hemingway and I am a performance artist. Rather than list my qualifications/ resume/achievements, I prefer to share my interests. As a performer I am interested in duration, repetition, form, intensity, humor, and posing. My inspiration comes from a combined fascination of karate, voguing, lyrical jazz, ballet, flamenco, and American Sign Language. Perhaps viewed as dangerous and chaotic, my movement practice is refined, diligent, precise, joyful, and furious. My goal as a performer is to be forever changing and to channel the divine. You can find me tending to my houseplants, Marco Poloing from my car, attending virtual Pilates, trying to befriend stray cats, and lip syncing. I am delighted to be involved and collaborating with artists of like mind.

joann johnson

JoAnn Johnson is a professional actor and director. She has appeared onstage in many memorable roles, including Vivian Bearing in Wit, Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Madam Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Kate Keller in All My Sons. Among her recent work are Mother in The Undertaking with Many Hats Collaboration, Vi in Escaped Alone with Shaking the Tree and Beckett Women with PETE. She is a Resident Artist at Artists Rep, where she most recently played Katherine Gerard in Mothers and Sons and directed I and You. Other directing credits include King Lear, Blackbird, boom, The School for Lies, Big Love, Grand Concourse, Macbeth, Eurydice, Richard II and The Turn of the Screw. JoAnn has also worked regionally and internationally, touring with Artists Rep to Asia, Africa and the Middle East and teaching in Bangladesh. Her regional credits include many seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Paige jones

If you had told Paige a year ago that within twelve months she would be performing movement-based devised theatre in her own bathroom, for the world to see, she would have been surprised, and then confused, and then thrilled. And it has been a pleasure to stretch wings and reconnect to so many people who took part in the original Restroom. A big thanks to Jessica and Beth especially, for thinking of her and for being so doggone competent, inspired, and kind. At this point in the bio, Paige would normally talk about how excited she is for her next production but, well…it just may be too difficult to leave the house ever again…

breydon “silhouette” little

Breydon “Silhouette” Little is thrilled to be a part of The November Project. Breydon is a mover, shaker, producer, and drag performer that is honored to be invited into a space of femininity and androgyny. Breydon works in night life event production, at Katya Presents. You can follow them on Instagram @silhouettepdx.

amber lux archer

Amber Lux Archer is a freelance dancer and yoga teacher currently living in Yucca Valley, California. Their career in dance began at Atlanta Ballet in 2012 and was followed by several years working within other ballet companies in the Southeastern region. Since switching to freelance in 2017, Amber has enjoyed working with project based companies and independent choreographers across the states. Having earned her 200hr yoga certification in 2017, Amber has taught at studios in Atlanta, Ga and Portland, Or. As a teacher, Amber aims to guide others towards a deeper connection within their own bodies and luckily a lifetime of personal experience with a disciplined movement practice has enriched her capability to do just that. Amber continues to dance, create, and teach in the time of covid and is thankful for the collaborative spirits of fellow artists near and far.

heather nichelle

Heather is extremely delighted to be a part of this great project and working with Many Hats Collaboration. While also being a singer, actor, and timid playwright, being a dancer is the core of who she is. Her professional training began when she was 15 at the Ensemble Theater Company in CA. Followed by studying at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NY, before moving to Oregon and majoring in Theater and minoring in Dance at Pacific University. Most of Heather’s current artistic focus is spent teaching at her body positive dance company Zaftig Dance based in Portland, Oregon.

janelle rae

Janelle Rae graduated from Western Oregon University (2017) receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and a minor in American Sign Language. Janelle’s over- and underlying passion is storytelling with the purpose of human connection and acknowledgement. Noteworthy performances by Janelle include roles in The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors (Oregon Children’s Theatre); Jane Doe in Wonderland (Game Over); Hamlet (Valley Shakespeare Company) and most recently The Measure of Innocence (Bag&Baggage). When Janelle is not on the stage or in a zoom square they are busy making music or materializing an assortment of crafts with as many strange trinkets they can get their hands on. As a Black, queer, nonbinary artist, Rae strives to make space for any and every kind of person they may encounter to better understand and empathize with, while positively cultivating inclusivity in the immediate, and hopefully, distant world they live in.

alex ramirez de cruz

Alex Ramirez de Cruz is originally from Ventura, California but has settled in Portland as an area actor, deviser, singer and theatre-maker. Favorite credits include: Teenage Dick (Artist Repertory Theatre), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Third Rail Repertory Theatre), This Girl… (COHO Theatre), 26 Miles (Profile Theatre), The Oregon Trail (Portland Center Stage), db (COHO Theatre), Passion Play (Shaking The Tree & Profile Theatre). She is dedicated to creating original devised theatre and is a proud member of String House, an independent producing title and new works laboratory, nominated for two Drammy Awards for "Best Devised Production." When she is not onstage, Alex is busy being a coding wizard, embroidering and cuddling her animals and wife.

kailey rhodes

Kailey Rhodes is a Portland-based theater-maker and body-shaker. Credits include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Portland Center Stage; Into the Woods and Ordinary Days at Broadway Rose Theatre; The Wolves at Portland Playhouse; Sense and Sensibility at Clackamas Rep; and Urinetown and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee with Anonymous Theatre Company. She has previously appeared in Teenage Dick, An Octoroon, and The Importance of Being Earnest at Artists Rep Theatre, and hopes to rejoin them again one fine post-COVID day for their world premiere of Anthony Hudson’s Looking for Tiger Lily. Lately in quarantine, Kailey is playing high-stakes for keeps by challenging the truth behind expiration dates.

yolanda suarez

Yolanda is thrilled to be back to participate in Rest Room! She has an MFA in Performance from the University of Idaho and a BA in Theater from U of O. She has been performing for over 30 years as an actor, improviser, storyteller and as a collaborator. When she’s not performing, she can be found at almost any karaoke bar singing the night away!

beth thompson

(she/her/they/them) Proud to call Portland home, Beth has collaborated with many local companies as an actor, deviser, teacher and producer. Favorite roles include Woman in Tender Napalm with Dancing Brain Productions, Orlando in Orlando at Profile Theatre, Miss Julie in Miss Julie and Catherine in Suddenly Last Summer at Shaking the Tree and Bear in The Snowstorm with Many Hats Collaboration/CoHo Theatre. They continue to develop as a deviser of new works and a producer of plays through their production moniker, Dancing Brain Productions, and through their work as Managing Director of Many Hats Collaborations.

jessica wallenfels

See bio under Leadership.

barbie wu

Barbie (She/Her/Hers) is an actor and theatre maker from Taiwan. She is a resident artist and educator at Artists Repertory Theatre and was featured in Today Is My Birthday Audio Drama, Better Maybe, Magellanica Audio Drama, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Everybody, and Magellanica. Her other credits include Renaissance: Technically! (Portland Center Stage), #25 in The Wolves (Portland Playhouse), Cobweb in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Anonymous Theatre Company), Mika Endo in The Mermaid Hour (Theatro Milagro), Katherina Serafima Gleb in Slavs! (Southern Methodist University), Kattrin in Mother Courage (Oregon Contemporary Theatre), Puck in Shakespeare in Hollywood (Very Little Theatre), Cordelia in King Lear (Lane Community College) and was a founding ensemble member of Bootstrap Theater Company in Truckee, California. Barbie is a teaching artist with Hand2Mouth, Portland’s longest running theatre ensemble, and a barista at Tōv, Portland’s only double-decker coffee bus. 

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