Jackie Keliiaa

Jackie Keliiaa is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor born and raised in Hayward, California. She has deep ties to the Bay Area, with five generations of her family calling the Bay Area home. Her comedy is shaped by growing up in the Bay, her diverse background and finding humor in heritage. She produces Good Medicine Comedy, an all-Native showcase celebrating fresh and diverse Native voices, and she co-wrote and executive produced an NBC comedy pilot set in a Native community center in Oakland. Jackie is a regular at Bay Area venues and has performed at San Francisco SketchFest, Punch Line San Francisco, and Cobb’s Comedy Club, and has been featured on First Nations Comedy Experience. Her interview with comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff appears in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy. Jackie is Yerington Paiute and Washoe and her tribal communities inform her comedy and her work.

She’s currently working on exciting new projects—and is always down for a quesabirria taco, a Whitney Houston singalong, and a well-designed flyer.