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Hand2Mouth, 3121 South Moody, Ste 105, Box 11, Portland, OR (2026)

04/16/2026

HOME/LAND returns this June as part of Oregon Contemporary Artist's Biennial! See it June 18-28! Tickets on sale now at https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org.

HOME / LAND is an immersive journey along the paths of personal and collective memories. Within a context of critical instability, when displacement and forced migrations have caused many to leave their homes and everything they hold dear, audience members are each assigned a temporary unit in a fictional government-run shelter village called Lot 6B.

The show takes you on a journey exploring past and present times experienced in Oregon and the US at large. It asks audiences to reflect on the forces that have worked over the centuries to bring living beings here as well as caused them to leave.

A unique outdoor experience, HOME/LAND invites audiences to reflect on their personal relationship with the place they call home and their hopes for what its future might hold. It asks the important questions about the ownership of land, the notion of home, and why we put up borders and flags to keep people out.

This show is a collaboration between Portland's Hand2Mouth Theatre, France's Begat Theater, and NYC's WaxFactory.

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/09/2026

We wanted to share a few photos from Rui Dun's "Mama's Emoji" in case you missed it during the New2You Festival of New Works. What a moving story about the distance between bodies separated by migration and the technology that connects them. Thank you, Rui, for your beautiful storytelling!

ABOUT THE SHOW:
Mama’s Emoji begins with a death announcement delivered the modern way: a text from Mom. Bad news, worse emoji. From that tiny glowing screen, a one-person interactive performance was born, diving into the process of grief when family is separated by migration. When oceans separate generations and emotions go unread, what happens to mourning and to all the things left unsaid? Blending dark comedy with quiet devastation, Mama’s Emoji skewers emotional avoidance, inherited silence, and the theater of digital intimacy within Asian families. Does communication break down through technology, or does it expose how bad we’ve always been at it?

Design and Direction by Rachel Zimmerman.

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/06/2026

That's a wrap on our inaugural New2You Festival of New Works! Thank you to everyone who came out to see these devised works on the theme body and technology. We appreciate your support! We had a wonderful time and look forward to seeing you all again!

Thank you to everyone who participated and helped to make the festival a success:
Pepper Pepper, Maia McCarthy, Jenni GreenMiller, Olga Kravtsova, Piper Francis, Rachel Zimmerman, Rui Dun, Emily Laue (Trick Pony), Adam Fleming (Trick Pony), London Bauman (Trick Pony), Nurys Herrera, Daye Thomas, Dylan Hankins, Nathalie Owen FitzSimons, Turner Cale, Athena Crane, Syla Edelman, Miles Franklin, Addie Grab, Aurelius Lillie, Molly May, Phoenix Nathoo, Mark Perez Siquina, Angelo Fernandez, Orion Ellis, Mila Lammers, Max Ratner, Alex Quiggle, Victoria Alvarez-Chacon, Al Knight-Blaine, Jon Timm, Gabriel Reyes, Michael Cavazos, Natty Arroyave, Jonathan Walters, Emily Hogan, Seth Nehil, Sarah Marguier, Thorn Hartspring, Joaquin Lopez, CraftedWChaos, The Property Weirdos, and PICA!

04/04/2026

Don't miss the last performance of "KEEPERS" by Olga Kravtsova and Piper Francis in the New2You Festival of New Works! The show will follow "The Parallax View" tonight beginning at 7:30pm, PICA, 15 NE Hancock St.

Tickets available at https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

MORE ABOUT THE SHOW
In a world where communication systems have collapsed, KEEPERS unfolds inside a lighthouse that still functions, though no one knows why. Rituals continue. Signals are sent. The response is uncertain.

Built through physical labor, repetition, and relational attention, the work uses minimal materials, with light and sound operating as active forces. Language surfaces only in fragments and never settles into explanation. KEEPERS invites audiences into quiet witnessing and shared listening, offering a space of vigilance where meaning is carried, tested, and held without promise of resolution. https://www.keeperslife.com

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/04/2026

Last chance to catch "The Parallax View" by Dylan Hankins and Daye Thomas alongside "KEEPERS" as part of the New2You Festival of New Works tonight at 7:30pm at PICA, 15 NE Hancock St. Don't miss it!

Ticket link: https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

MORE ABOUT THE SHOW
"The Parallax View" is a devised movement and sound performance by Dylan Hankins and Daye Thomas, inspired by Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" and Slavoj Žižek’s philosophy of the split subject. Inside a fragile cardboard world of screens, lemons, and objects (or are they humans?), a man navigates digital solitude, modern masculinity, and synthetic intimacy. There is comfort in curated shadows. The cave is no longer underground. It is handheld. It is personalized. IT learns YOU.

If reality is only ever perspective, what happens when the version of yourself built to survive begins to replace the one that needs connection?

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/04/2026

"Enter Your Prompt Here " by our Youth Devising Residency Ensemble plays one more time today at 2pm as part of the New2You Festival of New Works.

For more information or tickets, visit https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

ABOUT THE SHOW
The Show you are about to see is
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An exploration on the long term use of AI on humanity
Ensemble: Turner Cale, Athena Crane, Syla Edelman, Miles Franklin, Addie Grab, Aurelius Lillie, Molly May, Phoenix Nathoo, Mark Perez Siquina. Understudy: Angelo Fernandez.
Directed by: Jenni GreenMiller
Assistant Director; Orion Ellis
Costumes: Max Ratner
Hair&Makeup: Alex QuiggleProduction
Assistant: Natalia Arroyave

Photos by Sarah Marguier

04/03/2026

Co-Creator and Director, Daye Thomas, shares what surprised them about the devising process for The Parallax View in this clip.

See Co-Creator and performer Dylan Hankins in The Parallax View one more time Saturday April 4th with KEEPERS at 7:30pm in the New2You Festival of New Works.

Tickets available at https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

04/03/2026

The New2You Festival of New Works is proud to present the H2M 2025-2026 Youth Devising Residency Ensemble in their original work "Enter Your Prompt Here ."

The show plays tonight, Friday April 3 at 7:30pm, and again tomorrow Saturday, April 4 at 2pm! You've got two more chances to catch it!

For more information or tickets, visit the link in our bio.

ABOUT THE SHOW
The Show you are about to see is
The Show you are about to see is
The Show you are about to see is

An exploration on the long term use of AI on humanity

Ensemble: Turner Cale, Athena Crane, Syla Edelman, Miles Franklin, Addie Grab, Aurelius Lillie, Molly May, Phoenix Nathoo, Mark Perez Siquina. Understudy: Angelo Fernandez.

Directed by: Jenni GreenMiller
Assistant Director; Orion Ellis
Costumes: Max Ratner
Hair&Makeup: Alex QuiggleProduction
Assistant: Natalia Arroyave

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/02/2026

Thank you to our amazing New2You Festival of New Works production team!

They have helped to build the festival, shape it, care for it, and make sure that the festival artists shine every night! Thank you for all you do! ❤

Victoria Alvarez-Chacon, Stage Manager
Al Knight-Blaine, Lighting Designer & Operator
Gabriel Reyes, Production Asst & Crew
Jon Timm, Projection & Sound

04/02/2026

Trick Pony Theatre brings us more laughs tonight with their show SOFT MACHINE! Last chance to catch it as part of the New2You Festival of New Works!

Get your tickets at https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

ABOUT THE SHOW
How do you program humanity? Soft Machine - a newly devised piece from Trick Pony Theatre - invites you to clock in at the latest big tech company, OptiMates™, and see just how an android gets its adenoids. The most advanced mechanical being ever is presented as the answer to all of our most unnecessary tasks such as learning new things, making friends, and falling in love. An interactive, absurd journey into Uncanny Valley where we strive to make machines more like humans and humans more like machines. Who knew outsourcing our soul in pursuit of optimization was funny?

Performed by Adam Fleming and London Bauman.
Directed by Emily Laue.

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

04/02/2026

"System Check" by Nurys Herrera plays one more time tonight at 7:30pm alongside "Soft Machine" by Trick Pony Theatre as part of the New2You Festival of New Works!

Need a good belly laugh? Come check out these two works to tickle your funny bone! Tickets available at https://www.hand2mouththeatre.org/new2you-2026.

ABOUT THE SHOW
System Check is a solo performance about what happens when the human body is examined, measured, and misunderstood by technology.

After entering a futuristic diagnostic room, a woman is guided through a series of automated tests designed to read her body as data by a virtual nurse who follows protocol perfectly. When the system encounters things it can’t fully process like personal history, missing parts, and emotion, it attempts to adjust how it communicates, trying different programmed ways of explaining what’s happening. None of them quite work.

Blending physical comedy, silence, and a growing sense of frustration, System Check explores the gap between efficiency and empathy and asks what we still need when the results are inconclusive.

Photos by Sarah Marguier.

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