WIT welcomes people from all walks of life and improvisers at all levels of experience and skill. Made up of itinerant theatre professionals, bored public servants, confused stand-up comedians, desperate homemakers, cut-throat corporate sociopaths and nervous public speakers, we are a uniquely broad community in New Zealand improv. We aim to provide pathways for all players.
The WIT Committee is selected from and elected by members at an Annual General Meeting, with other members occasionally seconded as needed. Serving WIT for the 2025-2026 WIT Committee :
Co-ordinator – Shaila Mehta-Wilson
Secretary – Ali Little
Creative Directors – Emma Ross / Andreas Kubisch
Treasurer – Steven Davey
WIT maintains an actively training and performing membership of about thirty adults with a roughly even number of men and women.
Below, a gallery of some of our once and future improvisors :
Mark Case
Sometimes delightful new improvisors sweep into town and fit charmingly into a…Joel Luscombe
Joel is an improviser who is no stranger to making things up…Susan Williams
Functionally blind, Susan lives in a world of sound, and is passionate…Lyndon Hood
Lyndon brings rich shades of the thespian, clown and professional wordsmith to…Mike Webster
No man has shinier shoes or a snazzier tophat than this man. …Matt Carroll
By day Matt is thought to do something involving computers, but by…Lorraine Ward
Lorraine joined WIT more than a decade and a half ago, and…Colin Macmillan
No one is quite sure when Colin slipped into improvising with WIT,…Severin Gourley
Severin has been playing with WIT since 2017, initially as a musician…Gitta Majumder
Gitta has been improvising and performing for years, taking part in Comedy…Hedy Manders
Hedy has long enjoyed escaping from her very serious career in the…Oliver Probert
Oliver is an improvisor from way back. From playing and winning inter-school…Sam Jarman
Sam was WIT’s official youth wing when he first joined WIT in…Janet Humphris
Hard working public servant by day, Janet joined WIT in the mid…Kate Zabranski
Kate joined WIT in the mid 2000s. Since then she has performed…Brenton Hodgson
Brenton’s fell into improv by way of the WIT courses at Wellington…Wiremu (Woody) Tuhiwai
Wiremu (Woody) has been in, well, most every darn production WIT has put…Hayley Cherryblossom
Hayley moved to Wellington on a whim, after a five year OE…Dru, WIT’s Resident Gorilla
Although Gorilla has been a favorite format of WIT’s since the early…Phil Anderson
Phil’s first exposure to improvisation was during the last millennium, via high-school…Maggie Cargill
Maggie is an American import who has been improvising since 2006, and…Ali Little
Ali met improv at a WIT beginner’s class during a mildly dark time…Barry Miskimmin
Barry Miskimmin has twice been awarded the WIT annual prize for gravitas,…