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One Table premiered its first show at the Rusty Goat in Downtown Tacoma. Directed by Derek Nunn and Masahiro Sugano, performers Steve LaBerge, Jesi Vega, Joanne Lisosky, and Travis Pope, played to a packed house.
Scene 1, written and directed by Derek Nunn: When local drinker and retiree, Cherry (Joanne Lisosky), wins the big lottery, a burnt out celebrity financial advisor (Travis Pope) arrives to help manage her money.
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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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Travis Pope is the property/operations manager at 1105 MLK. He works with Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center (T.U.PA.C.) as a board member and operations manager. He was in the military from 1986-1993, where he had the opportunity to meet different people from all over the world. He now works with veterans of color as a peer-of-peer liaison and with underserved BIPOC kids of the Hilltop community. He looks to empower more veterans of color to be involved in their community.
Scene 2, written and directed by Masahiro Sugano: A frustrated Tacoma housewife (Jesi Vega) wants an assassin (Steve LaBerge) to kill her husband but the assassin has some ideas of his own.
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Jesi Vega is a writer, editor, storytelling consultant and owner of Represent! Editorial. She's curated BIPOC storytelling events at Creative Colloquy's annual Story Crawl, performed sketch comedy with Michelle Matlock's Circle Up Productions, coached writers for Quincy Manor Publishing's This Land is Your Land... anthology of immigrant stories, and had her work published in the Blue Cactus Press' We Need a Reckoning. Jesi is dedicated to supporting BIPOC storytellers and mission driven leaders who want to get their stories out there and are driven to provide innovative solutions for today's biggest problems. You can find her writing at: https://representstories.substack.com/
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Steve LaBerge is a Tacoma-based installation and public participation artist. He is best known for his works created for Burning Man and installed permanently in Tacoma, Washington. LaBerge began as a clay artist creating collage objects that could be hung on the wall. He started creating large scale works in 2010 for Burning Man and has made at least one piece a year since that time. LaBerge has also been a leading artist in the Tacoma Light Trail, an art and sound event with his TVs installation and his Sofa Trike, that he can use as an artistically expressive transport vehicle.
