Good Medicine: A Night of Live Native Stand-Up

A one-night-stand of all-Native comedy!

After selling out venues throughout the country, the smash-hit all-Native Good Medicine comes to the Lesher Center for the Arts for a one-night-stand of stand-up!

Hosted by nationally acclaimed Bay Area comic Jackie Keliiaa (Netflix, Comedy Central), the evening features an A-lister line-up of all-Native comedians, including Adrianne Chalepah (Netflix, Amazon Prime), Kristin Chirico (The Kitchen & Jorn Show), Tai LeClaire (Upright Citizen’s Brigade, NBC’s Rutherford Falls), and Bobby “Dues” Wilson (FX’s Reservation Dogs)

Produced as part of the Lesher Center’s Uplifting Native Voices series, including Bedford Gallery’s Re-Discovering Native America: The Red Road Project exhibition, you won’t want miss this stellar evening of laughs

Approx. 90 minutes, with one intermission.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS: 

ADRIANNE CHALEPAH
Adrianne Chalepah is a comedian, actor, writer and enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and a member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. She has performed on Showtime’s The Curse, FX’s Reservation Dogs, Peacock’s Rutherford Falls and Netflix’s Spirit Rangers. Her standup has been featured on Netflix’s Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy and Amazon Prime’s First Nations Comedy Experience. She co-founded Three Sisters Comedy, an Indigenous femme comedy troupe.
@adriannechalepah (Instagram) @AdrianneComedy (X)

JACKIE KELIIAA
Jackie Keliiaa is a comedian, writer, and actor. She has been featured on Comedy Central, Team Coco, Netflix, and Amazon Prime’s First Nations Comedy Experience. Jackie wrote for the web series You’re Welcome America and can be found in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem. She produces and hosts Good Medicine, an all-Native comedy show which has sold-out theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She is Yerington Paiute and Washoe and proud to be from the Bay Area.
@jackiecomedy (Instagram)  @jackiecomedy (X) 

TAI LECLAIRE
Taietsarón:sere ‘Tai’ Leclaire is a Mohawk & Mi’kmaq actor, comedian, and writer. His short film Headdress which he wrote, directed, and starred in premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. His next short film is being developed with Warner Bros. Studios that will stream on Max in 2024. He was a Story Editor and actor on the NBC comedy series Rutherford Falls by Mike Schur, Ed Helms, and Sierra Teller-Ornelas. Tai has been selected as a member of the 2022 Sundance Native Lab and was awarded The Indigenous List in Partnership with The Black List. He is a former house performer at Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and has performed at festivals around the USA.
@tai_leclaire (Instagram), @tai_leclaire (X)

BOBBY WILSON
Bobby “Dues” Wilson is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota actor, writer, poet, visual artist, and comedian. He wrote and acted on FX’s Reservation Dogs, Peacock’s Rutherford Falls, and he has performed on FX’s What We Do in the Shadows. He is a founding member of the Native Sketch Comedy group, The 1491s, and he co-wrote their critically acclaimed play, Between Two Knees. Bobby is a celebrated muralist and skilled beader whose work has been featured in Vogue.
@bobbydues (Instagram), @bobbydues (X)

KRISTIN CHIRICO
Kristin Chirico is a Native (Cayuga, Seneca) comedian, writer, and YouTuber. Kristin spent nearly seven years as a writer and content creator for BuzzFeed, during which she starred in BuzzFeed’s Ladylike and The Empty Suitcase Show for Facebook Watch. Afterward, Kristin started her own YouTube channel (The Kitchen & Jorn Show) with fellow BuzzFeed alum Jen Ruggirello. Throughout Kristin’s career, her YouTube videos about food and fashion have earned over two billion views and counting. She lives in Los Angeles with her trans wife and her cis dog. @itskristinchirico (Instagram), @kristinchirico (TikTok)