The Rusty Goat, February 4

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.