Acuña and Friends + Call Me Ishmael! + Desperate Holiday Measures + Save Our Soaps

Unscripted holiday cheer is here to rescue! Leave family drama and grim headlines at the door—prepare for a joyous escape.

WIT is DC’s top spot for hilarious improv comedy. Our company ensembles—featuring the fastest and funniest minds in the region—are ready to take your silliest suggestions and transform them into jaw-droppingly hilarious scenes, entirely made up on the spot.

The Performers

Acuña and Friends

Comedian Erick Acuña is bringing all of his best friends to perform this hilarious show.

Cast: Erick Acuña and his best friends of all time

Call Me Ishmael!

It’s time for a holiday genre mashup! You give us a genre, and we tell you a holiday-[genre] story. Think Die Hard (an Xmas-action flick). It’ll be a little like that. But with whatever genre you pick. (Full disclosure: The show will not be as awesome as Die Hard. But few things are.)

Cast: David Beam, David Spears, Joanne Zurcher, Matt Knapper

Desperate Holiday Measures

Veteran improvisers Catherine Deadman and Mark Chalfant plumb the darkest depths of the holiday season to see what’s there. Surreal, intense, and maybe even a smidge hostile – just like Mom used to make!

Cast: Catherine Deadman, Mark Chalfant

Save Our Soaps

A narrative soap opera based on an audience interview about some real drama they experienced.

Cast:  Abby Haverty, Erick Acuna, Kendall Hollimon, Mia Bloomfield

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