The Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance returns to PICA June 11–14, 2026, bringing together 28 Pacific Northwest artists across four days of contemporary performance, installation, and special presentations. At the heart of the festival is a shared mainstage evening in The Annex featuring five short works presented back-to-back, with performances by CommonForm, Marisa Conroy & Olivia Bratko, Sky Poole / Strange Enough Dance, Kye Grant, and Kole Galbraith. Sarah K. Finn returns with a full-length solo work, The Right Thing To Be Doing, a lecture-performance and fungal fantasy exploring climate doom and interconnection, while installation artists PDX-BER Moves, Jennifer Wright, and Thien-Kim Bui & Sumi Wu activate the warehouse throughout the evenings. The Portland Drag Theatre Workshop, guided by Anthony Hudson and Pepper Pepper, also returns for its fourth year with two showcases on Saturday featuring Portland drag artists expanding their work into theatrical forms.
Cast and Creative Team for Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance 2026 at PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts)
Cast
Kole Galbraith
Ensemble
Sumi Wu
Ensemble
Thien-Kim Bui
Ensemble
Jennifer Wright
Ensemble
Suzanne Chi
Ensemble
Carla Mann
Ensemble
Sarah K. Finn
Ensemble
Sky Poole
Ensemble
Kye Grant
Ensemble
Olivia Bratko
Ensemble
Marisa Conroy
Ensemble
CommonForm
Medusa
Creative Team
Jennifer Wright
Artist
PDX-BER Moves
Company
CommonForm
Company
Strange Enough Dance
Artist
Sky Poole
Artist
Carla Mann
Artist
Olivia Bratko
Artist
Suzanne Chi
Artist
Sarah K. Finn
Artist
Thien-Kim Bui
Artist
Sumi Wu
Artist
Kye Grant
Artist
Kole Galbraith
Artist
Marisa Conroy
Artist
Risk/Reward
Producer.
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