6:00 PM Sistine Robot presents: Sistine Brobot
Sistine Robot helps you understand bro culture.
Cast: Elise Webb, Joe Randazzo, John Carroll, Jonathan Murphy, Paul Hitlin, Sara Rouhi
6:14 PM That’s Not Fashion!
We are European. We are fashion experts. We will ask the audience for items they think are fashionable. We will do a short scene as these characters. And decide what is fashionable and what is NOT.
Cast: Jenna Hall, Krystal Ali, Samiyyah Ali
6:22 PM Slug God Presents: Slug God
Slug God invites you to join them in worship and praise of the Almighty Slug
Cast: Christina Ferrari, Jamie Lantinen, Jonah Gordon, Katie O’Donnell, Madison Schneider, Maria Getahun, Mike O’Connor, Mikki Smith
6:38 PM It’s a Jungle Out There
Uncover secret animal identities! Navigate hilarious social hierarchies! Unleash your inner beasts!
Cast: Blind Cast
6:47 PM Clenched FIST 2025
Did you miss The Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament? Well, if you blink, you may miss it again! It’s FIST in 15 minutes!!
Cast: Abby Fu, Alex Kazanas, Alex Wilkinson, Alissa Platz, Amber Bellsdale, Anna Nelson, Bethany Stokes, Carl Isee, Clare Mulligan, Devin Hiett, Eddison Wilkinson, Genevieve Dabrowski, Goli Samimi, Jared Smith, Jay Ray, Jeff Bollen, Joe Randazzo, John Carroll, Jonah Gordon, Jordana Mishory, Macey Schiff, Madeline Dozier, Matt Alexander, Meghan Faulkner, Mikki Smith, Mikail Faalasli, Olivia D’Aoust, Peter Tzeng, Sam Ruback, Stephanie Wester
7:02 PM Press Play Boom Box Block Party
Come to Press Play’s Block Party, where we’ll use our improv Boom Box to, for example, pause, fast forward, and of course play!
Cast: Dana Malone, Erick Acuña, Eva Lewis, Ian Farley, Jason Walther, Jon Chesebro, Matt Mansfield, Sabahat Chaudhary
7:13 PM Overhyped Restaurant
It’s double date night at DC’s hottest new fine dining/fusion/farm-to-table/family-style-small-plates/allergy-inclusive/immersive pop-up eating concept.
Cast: Catherine Castillo Castro, Elijah Giddens, Hana Farnese, Jake Rosario, James Gao, Jaquel Tomlin, Jeff Bollen, Olan Trosky, Sam Hollon, Serena Bolliger
7:22 PM Snakes on a Stage
I have had it with these mother f snakes on this mother f stage!
Cast: Blind Cast
7:27 PM Pitch OK
Aca-scuse me! It’s time for auditions!
Cast: Anna Claire Walker, Catherine Mullins, Dana Malone Heiser, Gwendolyn Bogard, Jordana Mishory, Katie O’Donnell, Liz Sanders, Lore Leupold, Lori Pitts, Samiyyah Ali, Sarah Baldwin, Simone Webster, and featuring Kate Symes and Geoff Withuhjee as Gail and John!
7:31 PM The Price Is Right
YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT!
Cast: John Carroll and others
7:36 PM Sábado Picante: Duolingo
Sabado Picante, DC’s only all-Spanish improvised telenovela, celebrates another birthday. In this episode, we take Spanish learning higher than Duolingo could ever dare.
Cast: Analía Gómez Vidal, David Steib, Elizabeth Cutler, Erick Acuña, Matthew Mansfield (and guest!)
7:45 PM Pitch Not Great
The a capella team faces some treble!
Cast: Anna Claire Walker, Catherine Mullins, Dana Malone Heiser, Gwendolyn Bogard, Jordana Mishory, Katie O’Donnell, Liz Sanders, Lore Leupold, Lori Pitts, Samiyyah Ali, Sarah Baldwin, Simone Webster, and featuring Kate Symes and Geoff Withuhjee as Gail and John!
7:50 Madeline and Kat Present: The Nightshift Concierge
A front-desk worker at a condo complex encounters residents, guests, and shady characters!
Cast: Adam Levine, Chizo Nwagwu, Dan O’Neil, Danielle Steger, Eddison Wilkinson, Jack Lewis, Kat Winkler, Kevin Eggleston, Macey Schiff, Matt Strote, Nick Martinez, Ryan McClure, Stacey Axler
8:03 PM Lava Kids Presents: We Meet Again
We capture the strange and beautiful energy of meeting someone again after a long time apart.
Cast: Al Koroma, Brent Buxton, Elizabeth Cutler, Mark Benjamin, Meaghan Griffith
8:12 PM Pitch Perfect
This nationals performance will be aca-awesome!
Cast: Anna Claire Walker, Catherine Mullins, Dana Malone Heiser, Gwendolyn Bogard, Jordana Mishory, Katie O’Donnell, Liz Sanders, Lore Leupold, Lori Pitts, Samiyyah Ali, Sarah Baldwin, Simone Webster, and featuring Kate Symes and Geoff Withuhjee as Gail and John!
8:18 PM Forgive Me Father
It all starts with a secret.
Cast: Erick Acuña, Eva Lewis, Kristina Martinez, Mia Bloomfield
8:27 PM The Great WIT-ish Bake Off Show
It’s Palooza’s very own baking competition show! Now with real baked goods! Make sure to attend if you want a taste
Cast: Blind Cast
8:41 PM Honey Smalls: The Notorious B.E.E.
Something is killing off all the bees. We are not Ready To Die.
Cast: Chris Orvin, Em Fiske, Jared Smith, Jojo Franzen, Richie Khanh
8:52 PM Third Wheel
Some situations are meant for two. What if there were three…?
Cast: Brian Guggenheimer, Matt Knapper, Meghan Faulkner
8:59 PM Send in the Clowns
WIT is sending in the clowns to fill some time between Palooza sets, but these ones seem to have lost their set list.
Cast: Kate Symes, Maryanne Henderson, Meredith Garagiola, Michael Burgos
9:06 PM The Wonderful Wizard of Prov
These new improv students discover — with a little bit of courage, a lot of heart, and some active listening — there’s no place like home on an improv stage. Catch this Level 1 showcase to see what they (and their little dog, too!) learned about heightening and framing and game, oh my!
Cast: Henry Ring, Jamal Newman, John Carroll, Jordana Mishory, Krystal Ali, Melissa Gedney
9:17 PM Defying Gravity
How many balloons will the performers keep afloat during the show?
Cast: Amber Bellsdale, Ben Lockshin, Chizo Nwagwu, Claire Brisse, Greg Lipper, Justin Fedich, Peter Tzeng, Renan Snowden, Sam Ruback, Stephanie Wester, Stephen Ho, Zhaokang Ong
9:24 PM Tintas (to Improv) DC
Bilingual improv players and local poets from Tintas DC, a Latinx writing community in the DMV area, collaborate in an improv show inspired by original poems shared by Tintas members.
Cast: Blind Cast
9:35 PM Our Precious
Stupid fat dryer has stolen our loincloths, precious. Wicked, tricksy, false! Patience, my love. The dryer is working, precious. Up, up, up the stairs we go to the kitchen where we eats raw and wriggling fish while we waitses — you keep nasty chips. Gollum! GOLLum! GOLLUM!
Cast: Catherine Mullins, Geoff Withuhjee, Jonah Gordon, Patrick Hsieh
9:42 PM Closer and Closer Quarters
Watch us get more and more connected with each scene.
Cast: Alissa Platz, Allison Wilson, Bill Nelson, Diego Hernandez, Elizabeth Cutler, Elizabeth Griffith, Memphis Worley, Natalie Knazik, Phil Jones, Rose Buchbinder
9:53 PM 2024 F.I.S.T. Champions: KINSHIP
Our names were on the FIST trophy in 2024 first but nobody remembers us.
Cast: Jamal Newman, Krystal Ali, Samiyyah Ali
10:04 PM Improvapalooza: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc takes the stage at Improvapalooza to get to the bottom of his trickiest mystery yet: who is he?
Cast: Blind Cast
10:14 PM VAUDEVILLE
It’s a tap dance musical improv extravaganza!!!
Cast: Anna Claire Walker, Jordana Mishory, Mike O’Connor
10:26 PM The Broken Bones presents: ‘Bone Marry Kill’
WIT’s ensemble ‘The Broken Bones’ needs to bone, marry or kill
Cast: Darnell Eaton, Erick Acuña, Eva Lewis, Kelsey Peters, Kristina Martinez, Neil Baron,
10:39 PM The team formerly known as Heavy Water presents: My Spouse’s “Helpful” Improvapalooza Suggestions
Can we complete three years of Palooza suggestions in one set? Will we be able to make sense of puns, wordplay, and accounting terminology?
Cast: Becky Steffen, Ben Lockshin, Cassie Hoffman, Chris Lash, Chris Olinger, Colin McIntyre, Joe Randazzo, Mark Chalfant, Meghan Faulkner, Nick Tschernia, Peter Jones, Ryan Pierannunzi, Will Ferriby
10:50 PM Everything Is Fine
Nothing can possibly go wrong here! Probably…
Cast: Caroline Wolverton, Emerson French, Jasper Harvey, Krystal Ali, Lisa Saladino, Rachel Sloan, Steph Wester
10:57 PM “The Eyes That Befall Us”
Scenes from the future Best Picture winner with eye-popping stakes and unbelievable tension. Live on stage.
Cast: MJ Welch, Sam Jackson
11:02 PM Shoes Really Off!
Why does no one ever take their improv shoes off when they enter improv houses? WIT’s AANHPI community finds out!
Cast: Aagosh Mathur, Chandra Char, Jake Rosario, James Gao, Jeanna Kim, Julia Pan, Kunal Duggal, Patrick Hsieh, Peter Tzeng, Richie Khanh, Rohan Narayanan, Sanjana Raghavan, Zhaokang Ong
11:11 PM Play by Play
What if live improv comedy was a team sport, complete with your favorite sports-take guys calling the game? That’s Play By Play.
Cast: Alex Kazanas, Clyde Thompson, Dana Heiser, Geoff Withuhjee, Ian Farley, Jamal Newman, Jared Smith, John Heiser, Jordana Mishory
11:24 PM solid[par]core
When the lights go down and the music goes up, you wanna be where the action’s at — and that’s right here at this year’s solid[par]core class on Palooza mainstage. Grab your besties and get your ‘core engaged ’cause you’re about to be jumping off a 20 foot parking garage like whoa. solid[par]core is the exercise craze that’s taking over every major city where people are so stressed out at work they’re willing to risk it all to feel anything like life means something again. Will that be you? We want YOU, to join the Core. solid[par]core. DJ’d by none other than Lil’ Brandon Blue Boy[tm].
Cast: Blind Cast
11:33 PM Jenna from TikTok
A fish outta water show. Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada.
Cast: Clare Mulligan, Jenna Hall, Krystal Ali, Samiyyah Ali
11:40 AM Eva’s got a potty mouth.
Can you make naughty things sound G-rated and adorable? Come see Eva try to do that.
Cast: Eva Lewis
11:45 AM A Moment Like This
Some people wait a lifetime
Cast: Mikki Smith
11:46 AM Joe Randazzle
Joe Randazzo and friends dazzle the audience with their dramatics
Cast: Chris Ulrich, Colin McIntyre, Geoff Withuhjee, Joe Randazzo, Jordana Mishory, Mikki Smith
11:58 AM Silent Witness: An Immersive Improvised Murder
A killer lurks onstage — and in plain sight. Audience members become silent witnesses as subtle murders unfold across three shifting scenes. Can you deduce who’s the culprit as corpses drop? Tension, movement, and mystery collide in this immersive whodunit.
Cast: Abby Fu, Amber Bellsdale, Becky Steffen, Cassie Hoffman, Gwendolyn Bogard, Jojo Franzen, Meghan Faulkner, Nick Tschernia, Peter Tzeng
12:09 PM The Great Estrella presents: your future
What’s in your future? The Great Estrella will tell you!
Cast: Blind Cast
12:18 AM Late-night talk show with Jack Barnes
Who will late-night host Jack Barnes interview tonight?
Cast: Jack Barnes, Jamal Newman, Jonah Gordon
12:28 AM Puss and Kooch Presents: She Swing
She is a fertile playground. Dramamine is recommended and emotional vulnerability is required.
Cast: Kara Kinsey, Kelsey Peters, Krystal Ali
12:40 AM Too Many Cooks
Just a classic cooking show full of good, clean fun and food!
Cast: Lauren Gabel, Macey Schiff