When Sarah Houghton started the WIT curriculum in 2015, she had already been doing improv on stages around the world. A cast member of Fran and Citizens’ Watch, Sarah talked to WIT about Harold Night, the challenges involved with performing dramatic improv, and her favorite improv moments in DC,… Read More
Tools like Zoom and FaceTime, useful for maintaining closer relationships, [can’t] re-create the ease of social serendipity, or bring back the activities that bound us together. Amanda Mull, The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship, The Atlantic Everyone knows this by now, but human beings… Read More
WIT Wants You to take part in the most virtual, most inclusive, and most improvisational presidential campaign process in history: Washington Improv Theater presents POTUS Among Us 2020 Read More
There’s a pre-show ritual among improv performers—even students doing their first showcase—that I deeply love. We tap each of our teammates’ backs and say “I’ve got your back.” It’s a genuine gesture of solidarity and trust that never fails to inspire. I have to admit, the impact of COVID has… Read More
Free online event first in series of new monthly community gatherings Read More
Deadline to apply is 11 PM on Oct. 27, 2019. Read More
When Analía Gómez Vidal first dove into the world of improv two years ago, the Argentina native worried that her English would make the experience a difficult one. Now, as a workshop instructor and member of the WIT project In Lieu of Flowers, she is proving herself wrong. To help… Read More
Applications will be processed on a rolling basis. Please submit your materials by April 6. Read More
"It all comes down to just letting go. It’s something that was the foundation of what I learned at WIT and other improv classes in DC." Read More
The deadline to sign up is Monday, August 5 at 11:59 PM. Read More