Jo Scott has trained at iO, Annoyance, and Second City. When she’s not improvising with WiseSnatch, she’s improvising with her iO Harold team Henrietta Pussycat, her Chemically Imbalanced Comedy (CIC) house team, Meow Meow Ruff or improvising with Jeff Murdoch in Seriously Unprepared. (She likes improv.) Jo is a regular player in the Holy Fuck Comedy Hour at Annoyance Theatre, where she was also in Splatter Theater, The Tragedy of Balloon Boy, Jimmy of Nazareth, Frostbite, Hardcore Dad, the annual Christmas Pageant, and several Triple Features. Jo has written three solo shows (Thankful, So Much Greener, and We Can’t Win) and won season 6 of Impress These Apes (she’ll stop mentioning that in 2014). Jo is the voice of Tom Teagan in the podcast dyingboy.com and is working on a pilot called Family Heirloom (familyheirloomshow.com) with her best friend, Jeff. When she’s not improvising or writing, she’s thinking about the impending robot wars. Lastly, Jo loves using one-word sentences: Word. Believe. It. Is. Happening.

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Rachel Farmer has been creating (did you barf when you read that?), improvising, and performing around Chicago for just a little over a few years. These places in Chicago have names like: Second City Theatricals, iO, The Playground and The Annoyance Theatre. She's really proud of some of the things she has done as it pertains to this bio and will list them to give props: KiNk, an original musical she wrote with Christina Boucher and Mikala Bierma ; improvising with Bella and WiseSnatch and a short play called Doublewide Lust written by Ed Furman; there are more things she has done so ask her if you are curious. Rach is currently collaborating on an original work with The New Colony with writers James Asmus and Crystal Skillman that will be featured at Collaboractions's 2012 Sketchbook, called Psychonaut Librarians. Rachel grew up in Mobile, Alabama and she is a credential holding Merchant Marine.

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Excited about exciting you with excitement, there is no shortage of energy in WiseSnatch, who start the show by giving some advice – and then explode into scenes in order to investigate the answers. Unafraid to put it all out there, the highly physical trio invite the absurd to enter scenes but the emotions are grounded in real action-packed connections. We’re WiseSnatch, and we hope this helps.

WiseSnatch is Rachel Farmer, Meg Johns, & Jo Scott.
 

WiseSnatch is proud to be a house team at Upstairs Gallery.

Meg Johns is a native Virginian who moved to Chicago in 2003 to pursue an artistic life of performance, writing, and comedy. She has trained in improvisation at iO Chicago and the Annoyance Theatre, performing in a variety of sketch, improv, and scripted original shows. Some of her favorites include playing with her all-female comedy group WiseSnatch, and creating the show Love is Dead: A Necromantic Musical Comedy, which ran at The Annoyance in Chicago and went on to showcase at The Fringe Festival in NYC in 2008.  Meg began teaching improv at The Annoyance in early 2008. She directed her first full-length original show there, Chasing Dumb, which she and the cast took to Austin's Out of Bounds Festival. Shortly afterwards she got to be a part of “sexy in the face” in Late Nite Tit Bits Burlesque at The Annoyance, which ran for 3 years and remains one of the best reasons to get naked, ever.

Meg is also a proud company member of The New Colony, having performed in the party ensemble FRAT, the 1950's musical Tupperware, the family ensemble Pancake Breakfast, and she directed TNC’s 11:11, which ran at the Victory Gardens Biograph in early 2010. In the Summer of 2011, Meg was in 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, originally part of Collaboration’s 2010 Sketchbook festival, and was turned into a full length TNC show. She is a part of the Educational Outreach program there, and is grateful to get to work with as many different types of weirdos as possible. Currently, Meg is trying to drink more coffee, breathe more deeply, and travel as much as she can. She hopes to do more of everything in the future—EVERYTHING!

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