Our Team

Meet the One Table team — a talented group of artistic instigators with big dreams for themselves, their community, and the world. From Puerto Rico to Cambodia, Los Angeles to Chicago, our team of writers, producers, and directors want to bring their experience and love of theater to Tacoma. They are committed to bringing live theater to Tacoma audiences while also generating business for local restaurants, bars, and cafes, and are always looking for talented people who want to contribute their passion, presence, and ideas to an unconventional stage.

Derek Nunn, Founder, Creative Director

Derek Nunn is a writer and director with more than 15 years of film and television production experience. Whether he's working with an award-winning independent production company, a major network, or a studio, Derek brings a resounding level of excellence to everything he touches. In 2020, Derek founded Magnum Opus Productions to focus on developing dynamic and innovative stories for film and TV that showcase uniquely underrepresented groups and demographics.

Masahiro Sugano, Founder

Born and raised in Osaka, Japan, the work of award-winning filmmaker Masahiro Sugano has been featured in festivals from Sundance to Busan, and screened in cinemas, museums, schools and prisons around the world. Sugano currently lives in Tacoma and is a Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington Bothell where he teaches courses in art, filmmaking, and global studies.

Anida Yoeu Ali, Founding Producer

Anida Yoeu Ali is an artist, educator and global agitator born in Cambodia, raised in Chicago and transplanted to Tacoma. Ali’s artistic works span performance, installation, new media, public encounters, and political agitation. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking, her installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. Ali’s works have been exhibited widely at the Haus der Kunst, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art Contemporain Lyon, Shangri-La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. She is a collaborative partner with Studio Revolt, a trans-nomadic artist-run media lab whose controversial works on social issues have agitated the White House and garnered international awards. She is a recipient of the 2024 Arts Innovator Award, the 2020 Art Matters Fellowship and the 2015 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. She received her M.F.A. from School of the Art Institute Chicago in Performance. Ali serves as a Senior Artist-in-Residence at the University of Washington Bothell and works between the Asia-Pacific region and the U.S.

Jesi Vega, Creative Director

Based in Tacoma since 2012, Jesi is an editor, story consultant, and founder of Represent Editorial. She has taught creative writing at Tacoma's High School of the Arts (SOTA), leads storytelling workshops, and hosts Bar Stories, Tacoma's only monthly storytelling night. Trained as an actor and dancer, Jesi holds a BA in Theater/Film from Vassar College, a MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a screenwriting certificate from Writers Boot Camp in Los Angeles.