WIT adds 19 new players to our Harold Night program
Nineteen new players will join WIT’s Harold teams for the cycle beginning in April 2025. Another 19 are remaining in the program but switching to new teams, and three players are returning from hiatus. The program will continue to hold steady at eight teams with three new teams (whose names are yet to be determined) being formed. All but one will have 10 players each.
The teams Don’t Be Alarmed, Queensberg, Table for Eleven, Thank You, Amy, and World’s Greatest Dad (Mug) are all returning for the upcoming cycle, while Heavy Water, Standby Children, and Affordable Luxury are taking their final bows.
The Harold Night program gives players the opportunity to work with an experienced coach on a weekly basis and perform regularly on the WIT stage. Most teams rehearse and perform the Harold, a format known as the “mother of all long form improv formats,” due to its complexity and global popularity.
Harold Nights currently take place at Studio Theatre on Mondays. Shows are at 7:30PM and 8:30PM, followed by a “free for all” jam at 9:30PM 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 April to October 2025. Players who are new to the program are denoted in bold.
Table for 11 coached by Turner Meeks
Aagosh Mathur
Alex Wilkinson
Vito Prime
Claire Brisse
Lisa Schreihart
Niv Elis
Andrea Mosee
Chris Olinger
Sam Sanders
Matt O’Neill
TEAM A coached by Rae Lang
Becky Steffen
Cassie Hoffman
Colin McIntyre
Nick Tschernia
Abigail Fu
Phil Jones
Stacey Pelika
Sarah Wilson
Quinn Kelly
Stephen Ho
Thank You, Amy coached by Chris Lash
Anna Burke
James Nugent
Jasper Harvey
Lore Leupold
Olu Okusaga
Patrick Maxwell
Rachel Sloan
Jason Fliegel
Kelly Shannon
Aimee Imundo
Abigail Brown
World’s Greatest Dad (mug) coached by Danielle Steger
Abby Haverty
Catherine Mullins
David Lapkoff
Emily Dalton
Gifford Wong
Hannah Piper
Shawn Peabody
Daniel Calingaert
Gwendolyn Bogard
Sam Ruback
Don’t Be Alarmed coached by David Shadburn
Hannah Lord
Kunal Duggal
Lisa Saladino
Marcy Coburn
Peter Tzeng
Simone Gannage
Stephanie Wester
Steve Pilloff
Aaron Harris
Ian Stout
TEAM B coached by Jamal Newman
Vasant Joseph
Jeanna Kim
Nicole Barrett
Ola Komolafe
Zhaokang Ong
Court McGrew
Mia Bloomfield
Ernest Afflu
Jillian Misner
Remy Chappetta
TEAM C coached by Jonah Gordon
Sanjana Raghavan
Fiona Leary
Ashley Holmes
Hassan Halim
M.J. Welch
Jacksón Smith
Colleen Ryan
Kevin Seefried
David Spears
Joel Larin
Queensberg coached by Stan Seiden
Adina Lasser
Avalon Warner-Gonzalez
Betsy Milarcik
Chris Clark
Genevieve Dabrowski
Matthew Schwartz
Meaghan Griffith
Sam Jackson
Mason Heilman
Paul Detrick
Image: Improviser Jeanna Kim is a member of WIT’s Harold team program. By Mikail Faalasli.