Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News

Ann re-entered the world of performance after a long run as full-time mom to three sons. She has now returned to the joys of her youth – backyard plays and high school musicals. Ann studied voice and psychology at Muhlenberg College and improv and acting at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia Improv Theater (PHIT), and the Second City Chicago. Along with opportunities in film, TV, and commercials, Ann is a member of the PHIT house teams Wavelength and High Fashion and the indie team Time Bandits. Ann currently performs with the Crossroads Comedy Theater show Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News.

Joe began taking improv classes in 2014. He was a longtime performer at the Philly Improv Theater where he was a member of several teams including Channel 77, Neighborhood Watch, Untitled and Dutch. Currently you can catch Joe in the Crossroads Comedy Theater show Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News. He also hosts the improv podcast Fair Deal: An Improvised Mediation.

Jabari is a Philadelphia based comedian, writer, & music producer. He was trained at the Philly Improv Theater and has performed with house teams Fan Club and Whiplash. Jabari currently performs with the Crossroads Comedy Theater show Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News and co-hosts the Free Improv Jam at the Crossroads. Jabari is also a member of ComedySportz Philadelphia and is the creator of the comic strip Failures in Parenting.

Geoff Jackson is a comedian, host, podcaster and storyteller. He was born on the shores of the Red Sea and as a child he was ranked among the top ten skiers in the United States. He is a decorated haiku champion. He has told jokes and stories in coffee shops, bookstores, nightclubs, tiki bars, and punk-rock basements across the US, UK, and Canada. He has worked with and for WHYY, First Person Arts and SyFy and appeared in 2019’s horror-comedy “A Nightmare on Jawn Street”. Geoff Jackson is now the host of Extree! Extreme! at Crossroads Comedy Theater.

Randie Welles is a performer and writer from West Philly. Randie currently performs with the Crossroads Comedy Theater show, Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the news. She has performed with all-POC improv and sketch group NYTEShift, and is a member of short-form improv group The N Crowd. She has been a storyteller at First Person Arts StorySlams, Tell Me A Story, The Moth Philadelphia and hosted her own short-run storytelling show Human Nature.