Cast & Crew

Abie Ekenezar (Va/Them)

Abie Ekenezar is an actress, singer, screenwriter and director living in Seattle, WA with an extensive background resume and has been in the entertainment industry professionally with IMDB credits since September 2013. Abie came on board with the agency Big Fish Northwest to work with the next generation of professional TV and Film professionals on the show Strowlers which is a fantasy film project released by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment.

They have been involved with such other projects as Grimm, Man In The High Castle, Librarians, Portlandia, JourneyQuest and even Z-Nation, filmed in Spokane, WA along with having a multiple of undisclosed future projects filmed now and the rest of 2022. They directed Prefer-Racial Treatment in 2020 and produced in December 2020 the film short, Outlawz and in 2023, the multiple award-winning documentary Bad Ass Women Doing Kick Ass Shit with more projects in the 2024.

BJ Becker (he/him)

BJ has had the great good fortune to have lived in five countries where he has worked as a farm labourer, sewer-pipe manufacturer, draughtsman, upholsterer’s helper, bar cashier, youth club janitor, singer-songwriter, hill farmer, shepherd’s assistant, pig-boy, building labourer, postman, actor, script writer, silversmith, potter, painter, illustrator, teacher, college professor, textile designer, and priest.

He is a second dan in Iaidobattojutsu, and a 7th dan banjo-player. He speaks Mid-Atlantic English, conversational German, useful Esperanto and a smattering of French and Welsh. He holds a BA in Ceramics and two MFA’s in Illustration and has performed on stages as varied as the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Historic Everett Theater in Everett, as well as the Public Bar in the Red Lion in Drefach-Felindre, Wales.

He has slept on the Streets of Paris, the battlements of the Königstein castle in Germany, derelict buildings in Switzerland, and on countless friends’ couches and many comfy beds. He has taught pottery, sculpture, jewelry, figure drawing, graphic design, 3-D design, color theory, Art History, composition, character design and communication theory to over two thousand art students, and a handful of six- through ten- year-olds. He has flown in the Zeppelin NT twice and is looking forward to cruising in a rigid airship as soon as possible.

Douglas Bailey (he/him)

Douglas the Beerbarian is an axe throwing, mead slinging, and dice rolling viking, cowboy, and adventurer with a 26-year career in the alcohol beverage industry. He's wrangled horses in Yellowstone and Hawaii, guided outdoor adventures from Alaska to Belgium, lead pub crawls in Dublin and Colorado and motorcycled across all 50 states. In 2023, he built a Viking themed Airbnb which he runs with his wife, Sarah outside of Seattle, WA. He’s a heathen and avid outdoorsman, and his favorite pastimes are roleplaying through Dungeons & Dragons and quoting Conan the Barbarian.

Hiromi Cota (they/she)

Diverse in ethnicities, experiences, and careers, Hiromi Cota is an Indigenous Okinawan and Yaeyaman, as well as a Mexican, Japanese, and Swedish American. Hiromi has been a special operations heavy weapons expert, medical first responder, adjunct professor, rave journalist, and the flaming-sword-swinging lead in a heavy metal opera. They (singular) have worked on over 100 TTRPG books and love creating & expanding worlds. In their ‘free’ time, they’re an actor-combatant, specializing in spears and daggers. They’ve lived in nations around the world but have settled down in Seattle with their spouse Randi and their (plural) dog Nasus.

Jeremiah Johnson (he/him)

Jeremiah has spent the last four decades on and around stages all over the Pacific Northwest, doing everything from writing, producing, and performing in original fantasy rock operas, swinging swords as a knight in shining armor in a professional jousting troupe, moonlighting as a lyric tenor in traditional opera companies, playing roles and managing tech in countless musical theater productions, and throwing horns as a vocalist and guitarist in symphonic metal bands. He is also an indie video game developer, specializing in narrative design, technical art, and music and audio composition. In his free time, he loves crafting elaborate, emotional storylines for his D&D players, and has been a ‘Forever DM’ for close to thirty (amazing) years.

Jesse Johnson (he/him)

Jesse is a long-time game master, creator, and chronic over-committer. He is delighted to join this ensemble as co-GM.

John Stevenson (he/him)

John's been writing stories since he was old enough to start putting pen to paper, and his passion for storytelling has never dimmed. He's been involved with various video game projects for over 13 years, ranging from action-RPGs to 4X strategy games. He loves creating compelling characters and allowing players to get to know them through interactive design. He also uses his love of history to build worlds that feel lived in and real and to create fascinating lore that will intrigue players.

When he's not writing, you'll typically find him dancing. He discovered ballroom dancing in 2015 and immediately fell in love. He's competed in competitions and even won a few of them. His favorite dances are Waltz and Rumba.

Louise Tollisen (she/her)

Louise is an Asian-American artist, UX designer, and voice actor. She has been designing and developing web pages and graphics since she was nine, spurred on by a love for design.

She is an enthusiastic and self-motivated artist who has worked on a variety of computer games, including Heart of the Dungeon.

Nat Puttavon (she/her)

Born in the vibrant heart of Bangkok and rooted in Seattle for more than three decades, Nat is a poet and storyteller who finds wonder in words and the spaces that hold them. She is the author of 365 Days of Grief, a self-published collection of poetry and prose that conveys loss, love, and healing through language.

Equipped with a B.A. in Art History from the University of Washington and an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma, Nat has spent the past decade shaping Seattle’s nonprofit arts landscape. She has served as SEAF’s 2023 Art Historian Juror, shared her poetry in Seattle Refined and Friday Afternoon Teas, and been featured in Collections, a live magazine and public club at Hugo House. Her creative voice has also echoed through the Wing Luke Museum’s Community Advisory Committees and the Fishbowl Gallery’s Note to Self exhibition.

Currently, Nat is weaving stories into the landscape as project manager for the first public art installation in Puget Sound Park, Burien: a project that brings imagination into community spaces.

Whether she’s curating moments that celebrate human stories or wandering the quiet hush of a museum, Nat is most at home where art and community intertwine. Beyond her creative work, she’s an avid gamer who braves the realms of sprawling RPGs and Gloomhaven, a lover of fantasy novels and fragrant teas, and a renaissance faire adventurer who proudly dons her elf ears beneath the summer sun. At day’s end, she returns to her coziest realm, home; with her two feline muses, Bast and Morpheus.

Randi Richards (they/he)

Randi has been a professional juggler, fire dancer, puppeteer, public school teacher of a dozen different subjects, head camp counselor, dice vendor, and voice actor, among many other roles. They are a trained linguist, speaking at least a little bit of Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Klingon. At Whose Crit Is It, Anyway? they direct our attention as our spotlight operator, which is a challenging job because they also have ADHD.

Richard Chartrand (he/him)

Richard has been involved in the performing arts since the age of 12. He started with school plays during his youth and moved on to performing skits in bars and parks, then became a central performer and producer of a Fantasy Rock Opera for over five years and is currently a knighted member of a professional jousting troupe. With nearly two decades of experience in martial arts, dance, and stage acting, swinging swords for an appreciative audience at a Renaissance Faire feels like just another day to him, even six years later. Richard has also been playing and running tabletop RPGs for as long as he has been performing and has a regular gaming group that he runs every week.