Meet the Nashes

Isaac Sterner (Marvin Nash - male cast)

Isaac is a super-friendly sort (which makes his treatment in this show that much more shameful).

This is Isaac's second TAO production - including the infamous Cannibal the Musical. Even though he is a relative newbie to the ways of the stage, he is anxious to let everyone kick him around a bit to show the world exactly what kinds of sterner stuff he is made of (did you see what I did there?).

He was born in Centralia, WA, where he still currently resides due to his inability to escape and is breeding in captivity along with the one who managed to tie him down, Monica.

His son Teagen just turned one in February and Isaac is already looking forward to teaching him the joys of house arrest.

He wants to thank everyone around him who has his back and lends him an ear of support and he is thankful to be a part of this fine group of crazies.

Excelsior!

Jamie Jenson (Marlene Nash - female cast)

Jamie was raised in the Bay Area, California, in the mid 50's. In the 1960s, her family moved to a small town in Sussex, England. Her big "claim to fame" is that she met the Beatles (OMG!!) and the actor David Niven (OMFG!!) during a couple of visits to London with her family.  

They moved back to the Bay Area in 1966 - a perfect time to experience an amazing explosion of culture change in the Bay Area.  Her last year in high school was in an experimental education program that was similar to what was happening at TESC (The Evergreen State College) in the 1970s. She moved to Washington and lasted one year before meeting her husband through a motorcycle maintenance class that she took at OVTI (now SPSCC). She dropped out and they were married a year later. They both raced motorcycles for several years in the NW. 

She worked for a local motorcycle company for a couple of years before taking a 180 degree turn and studying ballet with The Johansen School of Ballet. She ended up dancing with Ballet NW for a few years as well as acting here and there with local theater groups. (She was assistant set designer for My Fair Lady for Harlequin Productions -pre-Scot Whitney -in the late 1970s).

She FINALLY graduated from Evergreen with a degree in Communications in 1986 after her two daughters were born. She became involved with their various interests – horses, dogs, cats, chickens, 4-H, etc. Her youngest was interested in theater and dance, so she became active behind the scenes doing makeup, costumes, sets or whatever for Ballet Northwest and Black Hills High School. 

She needed money for horse hay and applied for a courier position at the Timberland Library. 18 years later, she now supervises the new material Processing and Collection Maintenance Departments at the Administrative Service Center. As part of her job, she has been lucky enough to put some of the video skills she learned at Evergreen to work on PSAs and other shorts for the library.

More recently, her passion for Jazz has gotten her involved and enjoying the many local venues in the area. Now that her girls have spread their wings and are on their own, she has become involved in local theater again.  She feels amazingly lucky to work with Pug and this splendid cast!