12:00 PM Spoiler Alert!
Watch iconic movies and shows get resolved in the first five minutes! What happens when Walter White gets caught immediately, Batman captures the Joker as a child, or the captain of the Titanic sees the iceberg? Find out what comes after “The End.”
Cast: Adam Landa, Allen Abbott, Dana Maier, David Beam, Jonathan Greengarden, Matthew Harper, Michael Randel, Noah Newberger, Rohan Narayanan
12:14 PM Standby Children plays Mind Meld
Watch an improv team try to come to a meeting of the minds and not disappoint their perpetually frustrated coach.
Cast: Alissa Platz, Armin Haracic, Grace Campion, Jason Fliegel, Joe Randazzo, Mason Heilman, Nicole Barrett, Vasant Joseph
12:21 PM Sweeter Things Presents: Cedar Things
Cedar Things tells a story about a community in a small town… but they’re all trees. Discover the wonders of nature!
Cast: Amber Bellsdale, Elissa Heller, Jeff Bollen, Justin Fedich, Mary Ellen Dingley, Peter Tzeng, Sarah Burstyn, Sophia Peerzada, Stephen Ho
12:30 PM MC Slimm Slappy Presents: Play, the Games Show
Long form improv in reverse: We begin with an improvised ending, and play until we feel comfortable asking the audience for what would have been their suggestion
Cast: Giovanni Diviacchi
12:39 PM Family Trips with the Joy Sisters
Who doesn’t love a podcast about family trips (and family drama)?
Cast: Chris Olinger and Erika Wind
12:46 PM Matron Saints presents: Iconologues
Improvisers take on the most iconic monologues from your favorite shows with (less than) stunning accuracy.
Cast: Emmy Harvey Parker, Morgan Burris
12:55 PM The Tourism board
Looking for a place to go on vacation? Let us be your guide
Cast: Blind Cast
1:04 PM Aloneprov
The contestants on the new season of Alone tackle the harshest environment yet… the stage.
Cast: Clare Mulligan, Jared Smith, Jessie Cali, Matt Strote, Melissa Gedney, Michael Alvino, Shawn Peabody, Steph Wilson
1:15 PM The Post-Show Interview
Getting up close and personal with the vital heroes of our community — the improvisers.
Cast: Catherine Castillo, Clare Mulligan
1:23 PM The Lesser Works of Charlie Chaplin
A genre film, but with no talking out loud.
Cast: Amber Bellsdale, Greg Lipper, Hannah Piper, Rachel Kloecker
1:31 PM If You Break, You Break
When improvisers laugh at each other’s jokes (or their own), punishment awaits in the form of chocolate.
Cast: Adina Lasser, Bethany Stokes, Catherine Mullins, Chris Ulrich, Eli Okun, Erick Acuña, Eva Lewis, Jonah Gordon, Jordana Mishory, Krystal Ali, Macey Schiff, Madeline Dozier, Meaghan Griffith, Mikail Faalasli
1:41 PM Board Game
Board games are the best — but can your favorite improvisers still do a scene when they have to follow YOUR rules?
Cast: Blind Cast
1:48 PM Groundhog’s Day Monologue: Consistent New Character Creation
With a new character appearing every 30 seconds, what goofy things will happen?
Cast: Sam Sanders
1:53 PM The Bold and the Battery-Powered
With one last chance to do a soap opera before the entire soap opera industry collapses, this improv duo must create the best soap opera that ever soap operaed! Your suggestion helps us get there. Can we save the industry or will it crumble into smithereens?
Cast: Alissa Platz, Armin Haracic
2:02 PM The 2025 Capital Fringe Festival: Improvised And Really Short
The 2025 Capital Fringe Festival that never was: improvised and really, really short.
Cast: Bethany Stokes, Brent Buxton, Eli Okun, Elizabeth Cutler, Jack Barnes, Jason Re, Jordana Mishory, Lauren Gabel, Peter Tzeng
2:13 PM Celebrating Milestones
Life happens and nothing will prevent us from feeling and spreading the joy of our sharing our milestones. We will celebrate and be celebrated!
Cast: Blind Cast
2:24 PM Constructive Feedback
Improvisers take real feedback they’ve received and try to break the rules in hilarious scenes that twist notes into chaos.
Cast: Delal Pektas, David Beam, Elissa Heller, Kunal Duggal, Matt Knapper, Melissa Gibson
2:33 PM Hyperbole Horses!!!!
Hyperbole Horses (AKA the best animals in the entire barn) are here to talk about regular horse stuff. Like how they are so hungry they could eat a billion oats! Or how the barn is colder than Antarctica! Or how the goat is more annoying than 1,000 flies swarming your horse eyes and not having any hands! Show created by Amos (age 5) who just learned about hyperbole.
Cast: Amos Hiatt, Henry Ring, Jack Barnes, JoJo Franzen, Mikki Smith, Nick Tschernia, Sarah Herhold
2:40 PM Joyride!
Joyride: The only place going off the rails is encouraged.
Cast: Aaron Harris, Darnell Eaton , Macey Schiff, Tandra Turner
2:49 PM Acuña and Friends
Acuña is gathering his best friends for a one in a lifetime show
Cast: Erick Acuña and a bunch of his best friends
3:00 PM Te HYOThEsIS PrEsNTs CoMdDy PIrIODyKLi
From Actinium to Zirconium, the Hypothesis is serving up comedy Au. Are you ready to learn which element is named after the inventor of the cyclotron?
Cast: Bethany Stokes, Henry Ring, Jordana Mishory, Tom Di Liberto
3:13 PM Paul and Eva finish each other’s sentences
Paul and Eva finish each other’s sentences
Cast: Eva Lewis, Paul Hitlin
3:20 PM SHARKspeare-Elizabethan actors retell Jaws
Dost thou need a bigger boat? Welcome all to improvised SHARKspeare.
Cast: Catherine Mullins, Emily Dalton, Jojo Franzen, Keegan Cassady, Matt Mansfield, Mel Bee, Meredith Garagiola, Sammy Garcia, Zach Myers
3:29 PM #bosses
Watch some top dogs bark.
Cast: Chau Ngo, Danielle Steger, Justin Williams, Maggie Briand
3:38 PM The Gauntlet Presents: Timeless
Improvisers without time.
Cast: Blind Cast
3:42 PM Queensberg Presents: Late To The Party
Hello, we are Queensberg, and we’re ready to put on a show for you ton– wait, where is everybody? They’re running late?? Ugh, okay. Let’s start the show without them, and they can join when they get here. Seriously, guys, we NEED to work on our punctuality! So… can we get a word, please?
Cast: Adina Lasser, Avalon Warner-Gonzalez, Betsy Milarcik, Chris Clark, Genevieve Dabrowski, Kacie Peterson, Mason Heilman, Matthew Schwartz, Meaghan Griffith, Michael Williamson, Paul Detrick, Sam Jackson, Stanley Seidan
3:53 PM The Gauntlet: Loveless
Improvisers without love.
Cast: Blind Cast
3:57 PM The Slacker
Have you ever watched a show and thought, “gee, I wish I could see what that character is like at work! Or at home! Or on a submarine! Meet The Slacker, a long-form improv show where characters are introduced, then re-introduced one spontaneous moment to the next. You never know where the story will go next and neither do we!
Cast: Akeim George, Austin Raymond, Brian Guggenheim, Christina Dabney, Fred Urfer, Matthew Knapper, Nadia Mercer
4:08 PM The Gauntlet: Numberless
Improvisers without numbers.
Cast: Blind Cast
4:12 PM Mr. & Mrs. Smith-sonian Present: The Unclaimed Item
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: bring your weirdest item for us to scavenge.
Cast: Alissa Platz, Chris Olinger, Kunal Duggal, Mark Olinger, Sam Sanders, Simone Gannage
4:23 PM The Gauntlet: Meaningless
Improvisers enter the Abyss.
Cast: Blind Cast
4:27 PM Wildcats: All Grown Up
FIST runner-runners-up the Wildcats are back to relive their glory days, baby! Remember that time in high school when we… joined the chess club? No, wait, we were in the marching band! Ugh, no, that’s not it, we… graffitied all the lockers? Well, whatever we did back then, it was LEGENDARY. And we’re going to recreate it for you right now!
Cast: Brent Buxton, Davis Langhoff, Emmy Harvey-Parker, Genevieve Dabrowski
4:36 PM Liquidated Damages
You give us a genre and a word of inspiration, and we’ll tell you a story in the genre built around that word. Kinda simple. Yet so awesome.
The name “Liquidated Damages” has absolutely nothing to do with the show premise. We’re one of the showcase teams from the recent narrative improv elective, and we wanted to get back together and perform again. Liquidated Damages was our team name for the showcase. We decided to save our creativity for the show, so we just kept the name.
Cast: David Beam, David Spears, Greg Lipper, Joanne Zurcher, Matt Knapper, Mia Bloomfield
4:45 PM Jamal’s Level 5 Class Reunion
It’s been over a year since Jamal’s Winter 2024 Level 5 class concluded, so onstage is the perfect place to catch up with each other, right?
Cast: Amber Bellsdale, Ben Lockshin, Chizo Nwagwu, Claire Brisse, Gwendolyn Bogard, Mairzy Webster, Nick Tschernia, Peter Tzeng, Sam Ruback, Stephen Ho
4:56 PM POTUS Among Sus Presents: TRAITORS Among Us
One of these former presidential candidates from the fall 2024 special project POTUS Among Us is acting a bit too suspect. See if these former candidates can use the knowledge they learned at their electoral college to correctly identify an audience-selected traitor!
Cast: Alex Kazanas, Erick Acuña, Eva Lewis, Grace Campion, John Carroll, Jordana Mishory, Kate Symes, Meghan Faulkner, Meredith Garagiola, Sarah Herhold, Steph Wester, Turner Meeks
5:07 PM Hey Everybody!
Hey all you group game enthusiasts! A show with an initiation for everybody.
Cast: Blind Cast
5:14 PM Stage Picture-Prov
No two-people-standing-scenes here: Stage Picture-Prov is alllll about giving the audience – and future WIT photos to stand the test of time — an intriguing, dynamic stage picture AT ALL TIMES.
Cast: Blind Cast
5:23 PM Sounds Worse than it Looks
Musical Improv (recorder version)
Cast: Blind Cast
5:32 PM Reverse Tags!
Usually, our backline gets to decide when to come into a scene. What if the people in the scene tagged someone from the backline instead? Will they be ready?
Cast: Blind Cast
5:41 PM Discoprov
Soul train meets Improv for a dance filled experience bringing you back to the 70s
Cast: Blind Cast