Whose Crit Is It Anyway?
Join our Party! Inspired by improv shows and Dungeons & Dragons, weâve combined them into a show with a cast of professional actors that will take on the characters you create. Guide them through the story with your suggestions!Â
If youâve never played Dungeons & Dragons never fear, weâre using a simplified ruleset, and weâll have D&D veterans there to guide you every step of the way. And if youâre a veteran player yourself, come experience a completely new way to play. Feel free to break out your favorite costume for the occasion, for our actors certainly will be!Â
In addition to having fun, learn valuable writing skills through the medium of D&D:
Collaborative Storytelling:Â Learn how to work together as part of a creative team and how to draw inspiration from each other
Character Development:Â Get into the mind of your character and how they would act in various situations
Improvisation and Creativity:Â Stories can change as the characters make decisions, learn how to improvise and stay true to the story, even in the face of the unexpected
The night will begin with the audience being divided into five groups, one for each of our actors, plus one that will help the Dungeon Master craft the experience. You will then pick the name, class, and species, as well as their background and personality! Then we dive into the story where your suggestions can guide their actions, which youâll watch them perform live on stage. With the input of the audience, even our dungeon master has no idea where this story might end up!
Get your tickets now and forge the legend!
The House bar will be open to serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.Richard Chartrand
Richard (He/Him) 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.
BJ Becker
BJ (He/Him) has had the great good fortune to have lived in five countries where he has worked as a farm labourer, sewer-pipe manufacturer, draughtsman, upholstererâs helper, bar cashier, youth club janitor, singer-songwriter, hill farmer, shepherdâs 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 MFAâs 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 friendsâ 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.Â
Abie Ekenezar
Abie Ekenezar (Va/Them) is an actress, singer, screen writer and producer living in Seattle, WA. They have an extensive resume and has worked in the entertainment industry professionally with IMDB credits for over ten years. Abie came on board with the agency, Big Fish Northwest, to work with the next generation of professional TV and Film professionals on âStrowlersâ, a fantasy film project that was released by Zombie Orpheus Entertainment in 2018.
Abie graduated with a degree in Computer Science, with a minor in Musical Theatre. They have sung all of their life and auditioned and was accepted into the Seton Hall University Choir, touring along the East Coast and internationally in Quebec, Canada. They later found their passion in cosplay and got into the film industry, working on such projects as Grimm, Man In The High Castle, Librarians, Portlandia, and even Z-Nation. Abie has completed multiple projects with Blue Forge Films, Zombie Orpheus Entertainment and recently started their own production company called BabsEk Productions.
Hiromi Cota
Diverse in ethnicities, experiences, and careers, Hiromi Cota (They/She) 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 âfreeâ time, theyâre an actor-combatant, specializing in spears and daggers. Theyâve lived in nations around the world but have settled down in Seattle with their spouse Randi and their (plural) dog Nasus.
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah (He/Him) 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 âForever DMâ for close to thirty (amazing) years.
Douglas Bailey
Douglas the Beerbarian (He/Him) 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. Heâs a heathen and avid outdoorsman, and his favorite pastimes are roleplaying through Dungeons & Dragons and quoting Conan the Barbarian.
