Extree! Extree! Comedy Inspired By the News

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.

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.

Rachel Semigran is an improviser, director, producer, and educator with 15+ years of experience ranging from the London stage and Edinburgh Fringe to Philadelphia black boxes and universities. She earned her MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is a proud Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholar. By day, Rachel is a marketing and communications professional in higher education. At all other times, she’s at the beck and call of her cat Millie. Rachel 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 with fellow Extree cast member, Jabari Dortch.

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.