WIT adds 22 new players to our Harold Night program

Twenty-one new players will join WIT’s Harold teams for the cycle beginning in October 2024. The program will continue to have eight teams, with two new teams (tentatively named Team Punch and Team Judy) being formed after Goth Baby and Backup Drama took their final bows in September. The teams Affordable Luxury, Queensberg, Sentient Corn, Standby Children, Table for Eleven, and World’s Greatest Dad (Mug) will all return for the upcoming cycle.

Known as the “mother of all longform improv formats,” the Harold Night program gives each team the opportunity to work with an experienced coach on a weekly basis and perform regularly on the WIT stage. Harold Nights currently take place at Studio Theatre on Mondays. Shows are at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM, followed by a “free for all” jam when everyone (including students and others from outside the program) are encouraged to join in the fun. (The shows are “pay what you choose.”)

The new Harold cycle will run from October to March 2025. Players, who are new to the Harold Night program are denoted in bold.

Table for 11 coached by Turner Meeks

Aagosh Mathur
Aaron Harris
Aimee Imundo
Alex Wilkinson
Brian Shevenaugh
Claire Brisse
Gwendolyn Bogard
Jeanna Kim
Niv Elis
Ola Komolafe
Phil Jones

Sentient Corn coached by Joe Randazzo and Mark Chalfant

Anna Nelson
Becky Steffen
Ben Lockshin
Cassie Hoffman
Chris Olinger
Colin McIntyre
Meghan Faulkner
Nick Tschernia
Peter Jones
Ryan Pierannunzi
William Ferriby

Team Punch coached by Court McGrew

Andrea Mosee
Anna Burke
Ian Stout
James Nugent
Jasper Harvey
Lore Leupold
Olu Okusaga
Patrick Maxwell
Rachel Sloan
Stacey Pelika
Zhaokang Ong

World’s Greatest Dad (Mug) coached by Danielle Steger

Abby Haverty
Catherine Mullins
David Lapkoff
Emily Dalton
Gifford Wong
Hannah Piper
Isaac Stone
Sarah Herhold
Shawn Peabody
Tim Montgomery
Urmila Janardan

Team Judy coached by David Shadburn

Hannah Lord
Lisa Saladino
Kat Kunkle
Kunal Duggal
Marcy Coburn
Peter Tzeng
Sam Sanders
Simone Gannage
Stephanie Wester
Steve Pilloff
Vivek Pranavamurthi

Affordable Luxury coached by Andrew Freedman

Abigail Fu
Craig Gagel
Daniel Barrera
Emmy Harvey
Jack Barnes
Joseph Bushur
Marisa Borreggine
Mikki Smith
Morgan Burris
Natalie Knazik
Sam Ruback

Queensberg coached by Stan Seiden

Adina Lasser
Avalon Warner-Gonzalez
Betsy Milarcik
Chris Clark
Genevieve Dabrowski
Kacie Peterson
Matthew Schwartz
Meaghan Griffith
Michael Williamson
Sam Jackson

Standby Children coached by Joe Randazzo

Alissa Platz
Armin Haracic
Daniel Calingaert
Grace Campion
Jason Fliegel
Kelly Shannon
Liz Lowry
Mason Heilman
Nicole Barrett
Richard Johnson
Vasant Joseph