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One Table's final show of the year was at Buddy's Chicken and Waffles. Directed by Derek Nunn and Masahiro Sugano, the night's performers were Shanda DeAnda, Jesse Hinds, ShaVanety Jones, Paul Richter, and Joanne Lisosky and our special guest was singer/songwriter Jaziré.
Scene 1, written and directed by Masahiro Sugano: A desperate woman (Shanda DeAnda) tries to convince an EMT (Jesse Hinds) to risk his job by smuggling her brother out of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
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Shanda DeAnda is an Alaska-born PNW artist who experiments with a wide range of media to bring her creative expressions to life. Through writing, photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, and music, her work expresses deep reverence for nature, people, and exploration, and reflects a life shaped by diverse experiences. Shanda has performed and exhibited work in Alaska, Georgia, Miami, Seattle, and South Dakota.
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Jesse Hinds has worked in theater arts in the PNW for over a decade, splitting his time between acting, directing, and fight choreography for stage and film. His work with Engaged Theater company, bringing Shakespeare to prisons in Western Washington, cemented his lifelong belief in the transformative power of live theater, particularly in alternate settings. He is a Grit City native, living in town with his wife, two sons, two cats, and puppy.
Scene 2, written and performed by ShaVanety Jones: A guidance counsellor on a quest for love.
Scene 3, written and directed by Derek Nunn:
Grandma (Joanne Lisosky) and grandson (Paul Richter) discover that eating Buddy’s food has been giving them superpowers.
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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.
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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.
Musical Guest, Singer/Sonwriter Jaziré
