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Hedy Manders

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.

 

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Oliver Probert

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.