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Jamie founded the production company Lekker Media, in 2006, making comedy shorts, documentary pieces & PSAs for such clients as Publicis/Hal Riney the California Department of Public Health, and Adobe.

Though Jamie is a Bay Area native, he started his work in comedy and video in Amsterdam, for the improv & sketch comedy theater Boom Chicago. There he shot, wrote and directed short videos for theater, mobile and the web, including the pre-YouTube viral hit Florida Voting Machine for the 2004 presidential election (garnering an EPICA Award nomination for best short animation).

During his time at Boom Chicago he was pleased to create live shows and comedy shorts with Seth Meyers (Late Night with Seth Meyers), Jason Sudekis (SNL, Horrible Bosses), Kay Cannon (30 Rock), Jordan Peele (Key and Peele), Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project, The Oath), and an amazing collection of other talents.

While in Amsterdam, he pioneered the theatrical integration of live video and improvisation with Boom’s cast and technical crew.

His work has appeared on broadcast television in Europe and the US, and has been featured on CNN and in Time Magazine.

Jamie was also an actor and writer on the award-winning 2002 short, Dance Machine, and with the San Francisco improv troupe Crisis Hopkins from 2007 through 2012. He is Executive Producer of the San Francisco Improv Festival, co-director of the upcoming feature-length documentary “The Committee: a Secret History of American Comedy”, and teaching applied improvisation technique with Speechless.