FIST 2026

Who will become the next FIST champions? Your votes will decide.

Washington Improv Theater’s elimination tournament lets audiences vote which team advances one step closer to the championship.

Who’s on which team? Check out the full team listing.

Which teams are competing against each other? Check out the bracket which is updated throughout the competition.

Each match features a headlining performance by a WIT ensemble or special guest.

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Details

Price:

$20 (plus $2 service fee); Finals are $35 (plus $3 service fee)

Dates:

March 13 - April 11

Location:

Studio Theatre (ground floor - Mead)
1501 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005

FIST Schedule and Results

Round 1	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
Match 1 Fri / Mar 13 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Between the Cracks The Blank Family Molly! Notes App Diaries	Shibacle	Molly! Notes App Diaries	Tix / Info
Match 2 Fri / Mar 13 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Please Listen to My Podcast REDACTED She's SO Nice	Baggage Claim	REDACTED She's SO Nice	Tix / Info
Match 3 Sat / Mar 14 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Midlife Crises Occupational Hazard One Improv After Another sketchy decision	Nox!	One Improv After Another sketchy decision	Tix / Info
Match 4 Sat / Mar 14 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Abercrombie Zombie Cerberus Lake Effect Split Work Hand Off Tag Team	Hellcat	Lake Effect Split Work Hand Off Tag Team	Tix / Info
Match 5 Sat / Mar 14 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	The Eleventh Hour Natural Stupidity Realtalk! This Could Have Been an Email	Uncle Gorgeous	Realtalk! This Could Have Been an Email	Tix / Info
Match 6 Sat / Mar 14 / 9:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Just One Bed Smooth Move Something Somewhere at Sometime Total Strangers	Queensberg	Smooth Move Something Somewhere at Sometime	Tix / Info
Match 7 Sun / Mar 15 / 1:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Don't You Dare Marjanna & Joey... LIVE! Zesty!	I Wrote That	Don't You Dare Marjanna & Joey... LIVE!	Tix / Info
Match 8 Sun / Mar 15 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Community Pool Heavy Cream The Steve Guttenberg Bible thot dogs	LIZARD GIRL	Community Pool thot dogs	Tix / Info
Match 9 Sun / Mar 15 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Gucci drip that slaps No Nonsense Your Favorite Exes	Kinfolk	No Nonsense Your Favorite Exes	Tix / Info
Match 10 Sun / Mar 15 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Deep Sea Astronauts L'Enfant, L'Enfant Lipshtick	The Hypothesis	Deep Sea Astronauts Lipshtick	Tix / Info
Match 11 Thu / Mar 19 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Oh! For cryin' out loud! Oops! All Gender! Play It Forward Whoa!	The Broken Bones	Oops! All Gender! Whoa!	Tix / Info
Match 12 Fri / Mar 20 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	4SDI=4 strangers doin improv Bronze Medal The Premise Keepers Quacker Factory	Lena Dunham	Bronze Medal Quacker Factory	Tix / Info
Match 13 Fri / Mar 20 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Buddy System Calamity: The Show Punk Factory	That’s So You	Buddy System Punk Factory	Tix / Info
Match 14 Sat / Mar 21 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	¡Soy Aquí Now! Bad Tummy Mock Tales You Better Call Tyrone	Nox!	Mock Tales You Better Call Tyrone	Tix / Info
Match 15 Sat / Mar 21 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Besties Intentions Dish! The Feminine Merge KABOOM	Improvised Table Read	Dish! KABOOM	Tix / Info
Match 16 Sat / Mar 21 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Are we the assholes? Breakfast Schnitzel Jury's Out of Bread What a Cluster!	Sistene Robot	Breakfast Schnitzel Jury's Out of Bread	Tix / Info
Match 17 Sat / Mar 21 / 9:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Three Uncles We Brought You Dinner West by Westwest	The Hypothesis	We Brought You Dinner West by Westwest	Tix / Info
Match 18 Sun / Mar 22 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Circle Here Go To Bed Stinky Cheese Unnecessary Improvement Machine	LIZARD GIRL	Circle Here Go To Bed	Tix / Info
Match 19 Sun / Mar 22 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Epistolary Affairs First Kiss Travel Pants Who is Tony?	Kinfolk	Epistolary Affairs First Kiss	Tix / Info
Match 20 Sun / Mar 22 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	The Bold and the Beautiful dank meme crime scene MARJ Why Not	Madeline	The Bold and the Beautiful Why Not	Tix / Info

Round 2	Competitors	Featuring
Match 21 Fri / Mar 27 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Your Favorite Exes No Nonsense Lipshtick Deep Sea Astronauts Community Pool	iMusical	Tix / Info
Match 22 Fri / Mar 27 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	thot dogs Something Somewhere at Sometime Smooth Move Marjanna & Joey... LIVE! Don't You Dare	Hellcat	Tix / Info
Match 23 Sat / Mar 28 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	sketchy decision This Could Have Been an Email Split Work Hand Off Tag Team Realtalk! Lake Effect	Uncle Gorgeous	Tix / Info
Match 24 Sat / Mar 28 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	She's SO Nice REDACTED One Improv After Another Notes App Diaries Molly!	LIZARD GIRL	Tix / Info
Match 25 Sat / Mar 28 / 9:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Why Not Go to Bed First Kiss Epistolary Affairs The Bold and the Beautiful	The Broken Bones	Tix / Info
Match 26 Sun / Mar 29 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	West by Westwest We Brought You Dinner Jury's Out of Bread Circle Here Breakfast Schnitzel	Earth, Wind, & Tired	Tix / Info
Match 27 Sun / Mar 29 / 5:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	You Better Call Tyrone Mock Tales KABOOM Dish! Buddy System	The Hypothesis	Tix / Info
Match 28 Sun / Mar 29 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Whoa! Quacker Factory Punk Factory Oops! All Gender! Bronze Medal	Madeline	Tix / Info

Round 3	Featuring
Matches 29 & 30 Thu / Apr 2 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Nox!	Tix / Info
Matches 31 & 32 Thu / Apr 2 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Uncle Gorgeous	Tix / Info
Matches 33 & 34 Fri / Apr 3 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	Madeline	Tix / Info
Matches 35 & 36 Fri / Apr 3 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)	The Broken Bones	Tix / Info

Round 4	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
Matches 37 & 38 Sat / Apr 4 / 7:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		iMusical		Tix / Info
Matches 39 & 40 Sat / Apr 4 / 9:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		Lena Dunham		Tix / Info

Round 5	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
Match 41 + Comeback Bracket 1 Fri / Apr 10 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		iMusical		Tix / Info
Match 42 and Comeback Bracket 2 Fri / Apr 10 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		Kinfolk		Tix / Info

The Comeback Bracket

Round 1	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
Match 41 + Comeback Bracket 1 Fri / Apr 10 / 7:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		iMusical		Tix / Info
Match 42 and Comeback Bracket 2 Fri / Apr 10 / 9:30pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		Kinfolk		Tix / Info

Round 2	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
Comeback Brawl Sat / Apr 11 / 3:00pm Studio Theatre $20 (plus $2 service fee)		Hellcat		Tix / Info

FIST Finals

Round 6	Competitors	Featuring	Winners
FIST FINALS Sat / Apr 11 / 8:00pm Studio Theatre $35 (plus $3 service fee)		Shibacle Lena Dunham		Tix / Info