LARISSA POHO
PERFORMER

Larissa (she/her) is a queer Ukrainian artist living and creating in amiskwaciwaskahikan. A multidisciplinary performer, production designer, visual artist and tattooist (owner/artist at Folk Lore Tattoo), she is also a teaching artist with the Citadel Theatre (musical theatre/dance), and is the former Artistic Director of the Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. Select performance credits: Moonshine (Fringe 2025 Holdover, Mavka Theatre); Once, All Because I’m A Woman, Hits of Broadway (Citadel); Infinity (Theatre Network); Canada Rocks! (Mayfield); ren & the wake (Catch the Keys); 10 out of 12 (WildSide); Ordinary Days (Straight Edge); Assassins (Loose Ends); Dreamer’s Cantata (Plain Janes). Assistant Music-Direction: Jersey Boys (Citadel); Assistant Direction: Evelyn Strange (Teatro La Quindicina). Lighting Design: Monstress (Vertigo Theatre); Pink Unicorn, Radiant Vermin, A Phoenix Too Frequent (Northern Light Theatre); Joni Mitchell’s Songs of a Prairie Girl, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Jupiter (Network); An Homage to Billie Holiday, Les Sylphides (Ballet Edmonton); La Raccourcie, Les Neiges, Simone et le whole shebang (L’UniTheatre); Fusion – Harmony in Motion, At the Bazaar (Viter Ukrainian Dancers & Folk Choir); Svitlo - Discover the Light Within (Vohon). Sterling-Nominated Music Direction: Barvinok (Pyretic Productions).