About Us
The Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) is Wellington’s not-for-profit, community-based improvisational theatre group. WIT performs and teaches the skills of improvisational theatre at community venues around the Wellington region.
Theatre is made up on the spot by some of Wellington’s leading improvisers and courageous newcomers alike, based on suggestions from the audience. WIT players share a love of storytelling and work together as a team to inspire the audience. WIT theatre is sometimes serious, often hilarious and always totally unpredictable.
WIT members performed in the ‘Micetro’ show that won the New Zealand International Fringe Festival Best Comedy Award in 2003, and decided it was about time they formed a group that had a name. WIT brought together many of Wellington’s casual improvoholics, out of work actors and bored public servants. The group welcomes people from all walks of life.
The establishment of WIT reflects the enduring popularity of improv around the globe and its resurgence in New Zealand. Be part of it - contact .
WIT Show Stop
WIT's core shows are:
- Micetro™, a licensed International Theatresports Format where players compete for audience scores and the title of Micetro. There can be only one...
- Gorilla Theatre™, a licensed International Theatresports Format where four experienced improvisers compete as directors of scenes to curry audience favour.
- Love Possibly, an improvised chick-flick where the audience calls the shots. There may be kissing.
- The Improv Divas, New Zealand’s first all-female improvisation act performing short-form improv – ‘highly inventive’ (National Business Review).
- Joe Improv in Battle of WITs, New Zealand’s first professional youth improv act and WIT’s militant youth wing.
Check out our upcoming shows. WIT also delivers 'W(IT)'s Tuesday' weekly training for members at Capital E and beginners at the Wellington Community Education Centre.
WIT Objectives
WIT’s specific objectives as listed in the incorporated society’s founding document at are as follows:
- To promote, develop and foster the performance of improvised theatre and comedy in the Wellington region.
- To teach the skills of improvised theatre and comedy through workshops, classes and any other means to members and to the wider Wellington community.
- To encourage the having of fun and the not taking of oneself too seriously.
WIT Creative Philosophy
We have three creative drivers – telling stories, cooperation and having fun. We believe these drivers are interdependent and create the best kind of improvisational theatre. This philosophy makes us unique in New Zealand and is reflected in our choice of a not-for-profit organisational structure. Comedy is regarded as the pre-requisite that improvisation is best known for on a public front. However, the philosophy of WIT aims to also explore beyond the bounds of purely comedic improvisation. Further detail can be read here.
Creative Plan
In 2008 WIT aims to re-establish WIT as a formidable brand in the Wellington arts and comedy community.