What makes a house a home? And can home be a feeling as much as an actual place?

A new show, performed this weekend as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ New Works Series, aims to answer these questions and more.

It’s the latest theatrical project of local performer and theater educator Mik Kuhlman, who is returning to Vashon after spending eight months living and working in New York City.

Kuhlman’s “House #30” will have two performances this weekend at Vashon Allied Arts’ Blue Heron building. The show, a solo piece completely written and performed by Kuhlman, tells the story of one of 60 houses the nomadic performer has lived in — complete with true ghost stories, poetry, clowning, audience interaction and a live musical score by Gretta Harley.

The house the show is about, Kuhlman said, is a place that continues to shape her life.

“It was a place I lost in a day, a place I rented that I identified as home,” she said. “But in losing it, it also gave me courage to travel the world.”

Kuhlman, a former member of UMO Ensemble, has indeed careened across continents during her almost three-decades long career, grabbing gigs as a mime, clown and guerrilla theater artist. In doing so, she’s worked and played with an impressive array of international artists. She’s also supported herself with other kinds of work, from toiling as a professional voice-over artist to something closer to her heart — educating other aspiring performers in a variety of international settings.

But Vashon, she said, is a place she’s always eager to return.

“I don’t own a home here, but I carry the community with me wherever I go,” she said.

This summer, Kuhlman will be back in residence on Vashon, offering not only her new show, but also a full slate of educational theater classes and intensive workshop experiences for performers of all ages.

For several years, Kuhlman has helmed Camp Mik, a popular camp for kids that is once again scheduled for several sessions this summer. And new this year will be a Camp Mik for adults, offered both as a one-day exploratory experience and a weekend intensive.

But first, Kuhlman said, comes “House #30.”

To ready the show for its premiere on Vashon, she worked from New York, carrying on a long-distance collaboration with islander Patricia Toovey, whose role in the show Kuhlman defines as that of “visual conceptualist.” Toovey is perhaps best known on Vashon for her design work on UMO Ensemble productions.

“Patricia and I have been juiced in this whole process, interweaving our muses to bring this personal and universal story to life,” Kuhlman said.

The actress also counts the venue where she will perform “House #30” as another collaborator in the piece.

“The Blue Heron — itself an old house, is gracing the stage with me,” she said, explaining that the entire gallery and performance space of the building will be combined so that her show can be presented in-the-round. She said it was especially meaningful to explore the theme of “home” in affiliation with Vashon Allied Arts — an organization she called an anchor for her work throughout the years. To perform at the Blue Heron —  a place that will cease to be a theater once VAA’s proposed Vashon Center for the Arts is built — is a special opportunity, she said.

“I can kind of feel this theater in the process of becoming a ghost,” she said. “Ten years from now, people won’t know that it was once a performance center.”

And although Kuhlman has done other solo shows before, this is the first time she has created a show based on her own experiences.

“I’ve always told other people’s stories,” she said. “This is the first time I’m writing the story with words first and not my body, going from the personal to the universal instead of the other way around.”

“House #30” shows at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 1, and 4 p.m. Sunday, June 2, at the Blue Heron. Tickets, $12 and $15, are on sale at www.vashonalliedarts.org or by calling 463-5131. The show is geared for adults due to occasional dark subject matter; children will be admitted at their parents’ discretion.

For information about Kuhlman’s upcoming camps and workshops at Hanna Barn, email sally@sallyjfox.com or mik@mikkuhlman.com, or visit Mik Kuhlman Productions on Facebook.