Hi, we’re
Bike Play!
We’ve been creating original theater by bike in Portland, Oregon since 2009. Each year we create a show from scratch, incorporating original song and dance, and as many bike-related puns and PNW references we can think of.
The audience bikes along with us between scenes to new locations as we perform in many parks and other found locations.
Our show is one of hundreds of rides that are part of Pedalpalooza, the summer-long bike festival, drawing large audiences of all ages. Bike Play is always family friendly in content and bike route.
Grab your bike and helmet and let’s ride!
Meet the Cast
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Emilie Weidlich
Emilie (she/her) joined Bike Play in 2019. Highlights include directing Jurassic Bike and co-directing Up Shift Creek. Emilie is an active theatre artist in Portland, as well as a published playwright.
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Ethan Feider
Ethan (any pronouns) is a first time Bike Player and couldn't more excited to get the extra cardio in! They have worked professionally as an actor up and down the west coast for 4 years. They adore immersive and site specific theatre. They also direct, write poetry, and are a big time LARPer.
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Haley Hessler
Haley (she/her) joined Bike Play in 2019 and has been known to choreograph dances for the show. She's a fan of Buddhism, nature practices, dance, climbing, and playing weird creature characters.
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Hans Ellis
Hans (he/him) has been biking and playing since 2014. When not working on Bike Play, Hans enjoys a nine month period of deep stasis, awaiting the return of Bike Play.
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Isaac Ellingson
Isaac (he/him) is stoked to be returning to Bike Play after joining in 2025! Besides Bike Play, he also spends his summers performing Shakespeare, scroll in hand, with OPSFest, and his winters behind the masks of the menagerie of animals in Imago Theatre’s ZooZoo.
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Jenny Bunce
Jenny (she/her) is excited to be in her 9th Bike Play, her favorite thing about Portland summer. She dreams of the day Bike Play goes international and casts her nephew and niece in France.
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Kelsey Rankins
Kelsey (she/her) has been with Bike Play since 2017, as a choreographer, dancer, and most recently actor. She loves to dance outside with the trees. Kelsey resides in North Portland with her husband and their two-year-old son.
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Kris Mahoney-Watson
Kris (he/him) studied theater and improv at Portland State and has been performing around the PNW for over 20 years. He joined Bike Play in 2016 and has been heavily involved in every show since.
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Lauren Trask
Lauren (she/her) is thrilled to be joining Bike Play this year! She is a dancer, clown, and is known to dabble in puppet-making and collage art. You may have seen her performing in the Clinton Street Theatre’s Rocky Horror Picture Show over the past few years.
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Lindsay Liden
Lindsay (she/her) has been an eager Bike Player since 2019, songwriting and collaborating with Portland’s bike community to help create routes that are scenic and safe. She enjoys walks and bike rides near and far, and admiring trees from her yoga mat.
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Lydia Manning
Lydia (she/her) was added to the Bike Play roster as a writer/performer in the 2025 show, Up Shift Creek. She likes chasing frisbees on the beach, and is half of Slydia: Portland’s Number One Comedy Duo (Girl & Gay Division).
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Noelle Eaton
Noelle (she/her) is the producer of Bike Play and has been involved in every production. Noelle works as a native plant gardener, volunteers as a Master Gardener, and has two delightful young children that are counting down the years until they can be in Bike Play.
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Ryan Edlinger
Ryan (he/him) is pumped for his first Bike Play! When he's not riding his bike or making theatre elsewhere, you can probably catch him playing games with friends, narrating audiobooks, or singing and dancing in socially questionable locations.
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Scott Weidlich
Scott (he/him) joined Bike Play in 2021 as a writer and as an actor in 2022. He loves that the show is an opportunity to try new things and is always excited by the unexpected ideas that come up during collaboration.
Where it all started.
Bike Play was first created by the brilliant Noah Martin and The Working Theatre Collective. Noah pitched the idea to his company members of the (now defunct) Working Theatre Collective. He was excited by the idea of combining their passions for bikes and theater in devising a mobile show on bikes. Bike Play had its first performance during Pedalpalooza in 2009.
The Working Theater Collective created original, devised, and DIY theater in unexpected spaces from 2009 to 2012. The company disbanded after a majority of the members moved away for graduate school programs. Company member Noelle Eaton stayed in Portland and kept the show going, sometimes with the support of founding member Ashley Hollingshead. The show now continues as an ensemble collective known simply as Bike Play.