By day Matt is thought to do something involving computers, but by night he is variously an improvisor, a musician or even that most special of performers, a musical improvisor. He’s performed in and musically supported WIT’s Fringe and Comedy Festival shows, included playing an undead university professor in 2019’s Lovecrafted.
Lorraine joined WIT two decades ago, and has been entertaining us (and our audiences) ever since. She’s been part of Comedy and Fringe Festival shows, regular Micetros and more, most recently devising a spectacular Haiku-based game that will be making it’s way into a stage show soon. In her spare time she is a poet, a model, an actress and a standup comedian, occasionally all at once.
No one is quite sure when Colin slipped into improvising with WIT, one day it was as if he’d always been here. He’s played in comedy festival and fringe festival shows, and was part of the crew that took Attack of the Killer-B Movie to the 2018 Palmerston North Fringe.
Severin first performed with WIT in 2017, initially as a musician but also as an improviser. He’s famous for his ability to noodle, although when he’s not striking a dramatic pose or a dramatic chord, he can be seen sharpening his wit as a professionally freshfaced standup comedian in bars all over town.
Gitta has been improvising and performing for years, taking part in Comedy Festival and Fringe Festival shows, as well as volunteering to help WIT and other theatre around Wellington. Her epic poems are justly renowned for being outstandingly epic.
Hedy has long enjoyed escaping from her very serious career in the Public Service to the wonderful world of improv.
She is a regular performer and show-host with a special affinity for Puppets, and was able to bring her next-level-geek knowledge to serve Attack of the Killer B-Movie. She is a sharp and ruthless operator on the lighting desk. Having served nobly on the WIT Committee, Hedy now dreams of owning a dog and of being able to fingerpick the ukulele. She enjoys long walks along Wellington’s south coast, but not on the beach because she doesn’t like the feeling of sand in her shoes.
THIS SHOW HAS ALREADY HAPPENED
(but there’ll be other great shows on soon)
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Beloved improv elimination competition Micetro is back for another bite of the cheese.
A crew of eager improvisers will again battle head to head using wit, spur-of-the-moment storytelling and risking everything for an the love of the audience. There’ll be songs! Drama! Pathos, bathos probably a bit of logos! A mix of seasoned improvisers and adorable newcomers and everyone in between will play their hearts out to decide who gets eliminated and who survives to be crowned ‘Micetro’.
All profits from the night go to support Little Sprouts – a charity which gives free life-changing baby boxes to babies in real need!
When: 7pm Sunday May 5th 2019
Where: Southern Cross Garden Bar Restaurant, 39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro, Wellington
We’ll be in the Guest Room – turn left past the bar at the back), so grab a delicious beverage of your choice before you come in to sit down. Note that because it’s licensed premises if you’re not a grownup you’ll need to bring a parent, and if you are a grownup but look under 25 you’ll need to bring some ID.
Tickets: $10/$5 concession. Pre-buy tickets on Eventfinda or door sales
Sorry, we just haven’t been able to pin down a training space for this week. Next week okay??
Oliver is an improvisor from way back. From playing and winning inter-school improv competitions to playing in the Comedy Festival with WIT, his love has always been the stage.
As well as being a performer in WIT shows including Gorilla, Micetro, Battle of WITs and representing WIT in the 2017 and 2018 National Theatresports champs, he independently devised and produced I Can’t Believe it’s Not Scripted, a musical improv show.
Among his many non-improv projects, Oliver devised and hosted a comedy panel show “Headlines vs Headliners” which ran monthly during 2018, mixing standup comedians and improvisors in a topic-themed quiz format. He also wrote “We Are the Experiments” as part of the Memory Plays anthology staged at Bats in 2018.
In 2019 he volunteered to be a Co-Creative Director of WIT, subsequently he returned to hometown Christchurch, there’s no connection between those facts.
WITsters at the Library on a Tuesday
WIT was sad to learn that the lovely Wellington Central Library is now closed, at least for a good long while, for building safety reasons. This means that our regular Tuesday night training space, the oh so commodious mezzanine community meeting room is no longer available either.
For Tuesday 26th March 6-8pm we will be at 49 Courtenay Place, the Fringe home of the Scruffy Bunny. After that, well, the committee is making some phone calls! We’ll find another place to play, and let you know as soon as we can.