ICP CLASS OF 2026

Rowan Chappell is an actor, writer and massage therapist based in Portland, OR. He has acted in independent short and feature films, web series, and a number of harrowing 72-hr projects that do not bear naming. Rowan comes from an eclectic movement background that includes training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, contact improv, and capoeira, and is excited to deepen his movement vocabulary through the ICP. He also writes screenplays, short stories, and poems that seem always to waver on the brink of production or publication. His favorite role to-date has been Silicon Valley burnout Marshall in the web series Good at Everything.

Ryan Conroy is a new performer based in Portland. Before joining ICP, they worked with Raïna von Waldenburg in her Grotowski-based I Am One Who approach.

Keanu Cropp is a performing artist and storyteller with a foundation rooted in improv. He has appeared in one-act shows at Oregon State University and has trained at theaters across the country, including Curious Comedy in Portland, The Hideout in Austin, Asheville Community Theater in North Carolina, and The Clown School in Los Angeles. He currently performs and teaches at Deep End Theater in Portland.

An endurance athlete as well, Keanu explores the edges of the body—taking weeklong running journeys along the Oregon Coast and investigating how movement tells stories both on the road and on stage. His work lives at the intersection of improvisation, physicality, and curiosity for the unexpected. Now, he is expanding his creative palette into the realm of experimental theater, continuing his search for new forms of storytelling through body, space, and play.

Monica Dailey (she/her) is a queer Okinawan-American artist and lover of laughs. She’s a happy li'l' clam when writing, performing, directing, and editing weird sh*t for the stage 'n' screen. You prolly don’t recognize Mo from the HUMP! films she’s created, but mayhaps you’ve seen the rando commercials, web series, and short films she’s been in and produced. Professional Mo has been a corporate facilitator for over a decade, delivering her infectious energy & F-U-N experiences to inspire deeper understanding & empathy for others. Home Mo (teehee) bakes & eats all the sugary sweets, a constant rotation of birthday bakes for all the sweetie pies in her life. PS also, DOGS RULE.

Milos Dugas is a Creative with a primary background in music--first with a focus in trumpet and many different ensembles, then a focus in music theory and electronic/experimental composition. Milos also grew up taking dance classes for about a decade and has spent significant time writing, performing and thinking. Some of their interests include: shoes, ASMR, sour candy, cold Honeycrisp apples, rom-coms, ergonomics, things related to magicians, self-honesty, heavy bass sounds. Currently, Milos is working to produce Portland Textile Month and teaches music theory lessons catered to adult learners. They have a four-year degree in Sonic Arts and Music Production and are considering a creative graduate degree that ties in their ongoing goal of teaching. Milos uses they/them pronouns and was born abroad, but grew up in Washington.

Marcel Mawulorm Johansen is an interdisciplinary artist from Tema, Ghana, currently based in Portland, Oregon. His art comes from a place of childlike curiosity about the world, and himself in relation to it - in search of the thin through lines that thread our shared and individual human experiences. His work is deeply rooted in personal experience, ancestral memory, and cultural lineage. It is a spiritual practice as much as a creative one—cathartic, revealing, and sometimes healing.

Marcel’s modes of expression follow the flow of inspiration and opportunity. He currently weaves between film photographs, video, poetry, event production and acting for stage and film.  You can often find him hosting Portland’s iteration of the on-going “RNBAFTERDARK” series at L’atelier Yaffe … or on a leisurely walk, staring at things.  

You can find more info about his work  @efo.celus and @efothehuman on instagram 

urks io (they/them) is a multidimensional, interdisciplinary, omninonbinary artist with a physical form currently based in Portland, OR. Filled with irreverent humor, word play, and ecstatic nonsense, urks embodies a galaxy of characters, clowns, and chaos as they create performance, video, installation art, and more. Their work is expansive, experimental, and exploratory— leaning into collective creation, weaving the dream of a radical queer utopia into reality, and encouraging pleasure and play through the creation of immersive worlds. 

Currently, urks is working as an artist, teacher, and events producer. 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,” and the theatre group The Clown Mystics.

Kate Perri is a performer, artist, writer, friend, neighbor, educator, and program creator and facilitator from Portland. She recently completed the 2024-2025 mentorship program with Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Previously she has trained at, taught, performed and produced work at From the Ground Up. Kate graduated from Portland State University in 2017 with a Bachelor's of Art in Theatre Arts and a Bachelor's of Art in Arts and Letters. She has lead artistic programming in partnership with the Portland Grief House and Portland Playhouse. KP's work utilizes nostalgia, comedic modalities, the surreal, the body, and the natural world to dream up new work that is both tightrope and tug-of-war between what was and what can be? She wants to thank her friends, her mom, chosen family, her 8 year old self, and liberation workers throughout time and space. She wants to thank all her teachers, professors, coaches, mentors, co-creators, guides, muses, donors, Philip Cuomo and the Cuomo Theatre Collective. She wants to thank PETE for their generosity and leadership; and wants to express her immense gratitude and excitement to be a part of this program and community. 

Jasper Prodromou is making his professional debut as a part of the ICP program. A recent graduate of Lewis and Clark College, Jasper holds a deep fascination with community and ensemble movement as a form of connection. He was fortunate enough to be a part of Isabel McTighe's thesis production of A Muse and went on to participate in various movement- and community-focused pieces. Despite his departure from the world of academia, Jasper is an eternal student of the universe and looks forward to the many opportunities for growth that ICP provides!

Jody (Ira) Read is a genderfluid interdisciplinary artist whose current interests lie in amplifying the absurd nature of modern societal expectations and encouraging audiences towards action via immersive theatrical performance, clown as protest, drag, and surrealist graphic art.  She has a vested interest in the ways in which theatre making can be made more ethical for performers, designers, technicians, and audiences alike and often finds himself balancing a love for intense and often bloody theatrical spectacle with a want for art that allows participants to process its message. Some of their recent work includes her original play Exemplar which was co-produced and co-directed with collaborator L Stevens for Fertile Grounds Festival of New Works 2025; acting roles as various deeply conflicted queer folk in the plays of Mikki Gillette; performing in drag as SIK PHREAK and MEAT QT; and creating visual works as UncomfortableNonsense. 

No "Noli" Reyes (she/he) is a Filipino and Mexican writer, performance artist, community organizer, event producer, cultural worker, and budding earth tender. She is a graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) Portfolio Program in Prose and the Wapato Table Ancestral Medicine Unschool at Wapato Island Farm on Sauvie Island. She is the Cofounder of the Pacific Northwest based queer and trans Asian led writing and movement project Liminal Bodies. He has written, directed and produced shows for Portland Center Stage, Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, PICA, Headwaters Theatre, and Sou’wester in Seaview, WA.

Zigzag Sunshine Rhae is upside-down. 

Candi X is a performance and video artist, facilitator, producer, and director. They have recently moved back to Portland after spending the past 7 years in Mexico. Their brightly queer and colorful creations, which are rooted in deep research, explore the eco-erotic relationship between the human and natural world. All of their works are equal parts accessible, embodied, intellectual, and silly – redefining the erotic by igniting the sensorial imagination. Through playful, body-based experiences, performances, films, and practices, they facilitate fun, connection, and curiosity that opens audiences up to new perspectives and possibilities for connection.

Their philosophy explores eroticism as the desire for more aliveness, not only for oneself, but for all life – the erotic as a driving force to both imagine and action new forms of creation and collaboration. Through their diverse works, they awaken the memory of being alive in our bodies so we may listen more deeply to ourselves, those around us, and the surrounding nature which inspires us to better care for one another and co-create an abundant future and a new regenerative reality.

Candi X has taught and performed internationally in Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, the US, and throughout Mexico.