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One Table's first cafe-based performance of the year was a triumphant, standing room only appearance at Jazzy's Cafe. With scenes directed once again by Derek Nunn and Masahiro Sugano, the night's actors were seasoned One Table veterans Sameer Arshad, Joanne Lisosky, Paul Richter, and Bedillia Gonzelez.
Scene 1: Sameer Arshad and Joanne Lisosky, who are friends from tap dance class discover that, for entirely different but equally desperate reasons, they've both applied for positions with ICE -- but only one of them gets the job (written and directed by Masahiro Sugano).
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Sameer Arshad is a Persian-Turk-Arab-Indian-Pakistani playwright, writer, actor, animator, film-maker, comic maker and visual artist based in Seattle. Several of Sameer’s plays, short and long, have received productions in the Seattle area (Crewmates, 2018, Annex Theatre; Millennitopia, 2017, 14/48 Nordo; Anything Can Write A Play, 2024, 14/48 Projects: Can We Abolish ICE Now?, 2024, 14/48 Projects). Sameer has also acted in several productions in the Seattle Area as well, with Centerstage Theatre (10 Acrobats), Macha Theatre Works (What to expect when you’re simulating?) Parley Productions (The List) and SOAC (Real Talk). Sameer is a trained linguist and also provides services in cultural consulting and dialect training.
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Joanne Lisosky was raised in upstate New York, but by 21 she found the east too stifling. She has since lived in every time zone in the U.S. including Hawaii. Her IMDB file lists “Stacy’s Knights” where she plays an obnoxious 21 dealer--a real job that she held for about 10 years. But don’t look too hard for that title… It was Kevin Costner’s debut film and he likely had all copies of this dreadful movie burned. Behind the camera, she has won a Northwest Emmy and Two Tellys as a producer for the documentary, “Peace Queen.” In real life, she is a retired professor of journalism from Pacific Lutheran University where she also served three Fulbright awards in Uganda, Azerbaijan and Trinidad & Tobago.
Scene 2: There is a post-apocalyptic future where giant crabs have taken over everything, so time traveler Paul Richter returns to Jazzy's in the year 2025 to convince future world leader Bedillia Gonzelez that she is the only person who can stop them. (written and directed by Derek Nunn).
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Bedillia Gonzeles was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona but recently moved to Tacoma 6 months ago! She has a passion for acting and did theater in her high school and local church. It's been nearly a decade since she last acted but is excited to be on this journey and provided the opportunity to work with the One Table Show!
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Paul Richter is an actor, writer, filmmaker and improviser from Tacoma, Washington. He's been seen onstage in productions at Tacoma Little Theater, Lakewood Playhouse, and all over the Puget Sound from 2011 to 2020 performing improvised one-act plays as part of Muh Grog Zoo. He's a frequent participant in the Grand Cinema's 253 Short Film Competition and has been in dozens of short and feature films available in a variety of places online. He is also co-creator of the Tacoma-based, sci-fi/comedy podcast Spacies, available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
