Traveling Tchotchkes + 3rd Graders + A Democracy Debacle

Buckle up! Joyride is a non-stop, high-energy improv performance series where the destination changes every weekend.

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

Traveling Tchotchkes
We’re not going to get THAT through customs!

Cast: Emerson French, Memphis Worley, Rachel Sloan, Stephanie Wester

3rd Graders
The 3rd graders love to explore the world through the lens of your childhood. We go on a journey co-creating the possibilities of what you wanted to be as a child, and what you are today. We move through time, relationships, and locations to find the relatable and absurd in our career choices.

Cast: Joanne Harris, Aaron Harris, Tracie Turnipseed, Micha’le Harrison

A Democracy Debacle
Our Democracy is in chaos. Watch as one idealistic first year congressperson tries—and potentially fails spectacularly—to pass a bill, exposing the absurd, frustrating, and downright ridiculous world of American politics. It’s democracy, dysfunction, and disaster…all improvised live!

Cast: Alissa Platz-Engler, Chris Olinger, Chris Ulrich, Grace Campion, Hannah Piper, John Windmueller, Kunal Duggal, Matt O’Neill, Ryan Pierannuzi, Sam Sanders, Stacey Pelika

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