Matt Berman has been happily performing with iMusical for well over thirteen lunar cycles. Matt was a founding member of Washington University's sketch comedy troupe Kaktabülz and has studied improv with The Groundlings and through WIT's training program. He has also performed in and directed less-improvised theatrical endeavors, most recently with the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society.

Musical theater and improv are like chocolate and peanut-butter for Mark Chalfant. Combine them and he will eat them all. He's delighted to have been involved with iMusical since Travis Ploeger began the project in the summer of 2006, and he's thrilled the show allows him to play with fantastic improvisers from ComedySportz and the DC Improv. He thanks the phenomenal Barbara Scott and Joshua Brody of Bay Area Theatresports, whose inspiring workshops years ago sparked his love for musical improv. Mark helped re-found WIT in 1997 and has served as the company's artistic director since 2003.

Catherine Deadman was spawned by the WIT training program. She was thrilled to performing with WIT ensemble onesixtyone, and then to join the iMusical family. At the University of Virginia where she was an Anthropology and Spanish major, she had absolutely nothing to do with improv. Her Spanthropology degree has had absolutely nothing to do with anything she's done since. She's an alumni of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, and she's been called "one of the most impressive talents to hit Washington's stages in the last ten years" by her loved ones.

Karen Lange has been active in the DC improv scene for 7 years, performing with Washington Improv Theater in over 100 performances of iMusical: The Improvised Musical. Other favorite improv performances include POTUS Among Us, Seasonal Disorder, and Improvised Lives. In addition to teaching improvisation and musical improvisation classes at WIT, Karen runs the organization's corporate training program. Karen also enjoys scripted acting on both stage and screen. Recent stage roles include Olivia in Be Here Now and Judith in Freakshow both with Pinky Swear Productions. Favorite film roles include Festivale (a fully improvised feature length film) and The Bad News Bearer, the 2007 Best Film winner in the DC 48-Hour Film Festival. She trained at WIT and Studio Theatre. Karen thinks life is the ultimate improvisational experience.

Travis Charles Ploeger (Director, Accompanist) moved to the DC area in 2006, after an eight-year career as the musical director for Chicago City Limits, the longest-running comedy revue in New York City. He was also the co-creator of I Eat Pandas, the two-woman musical improv group starring Eliza Skinner and Glennis McMurray. A graduate of the Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford), he also teaches workshops and classes in song improvisation, and has helped to create and perform over 1,500 improvised musicals in front of live audiences all across the country. His "legitimate" theater credits include stints at The Great American Melodrama and Vaudeville (CA) and the Forestburgh Playhouse (NY), where he once music directed Loretta "Hot Lips Houlihan" Switt in The Apple Tree. He has also written several musicals for their children's theater series. He is an avid fan of the Washington Nationals (complete with an Expos Strasburg jersey), as well as a season ticket owner for the Minnesota Vikings.  He lives in Silver Spring with his dreamgirl wife, Melissa, and their two attention-seeking children, Benjamin and Henry.  Follow him on Twitter here.

Justin Purvis has been doing improv all his life, but started really focusing on it in 2001 with Erasable Inc. at University of Maryland. Since then, he has studied with iO, Annoyance, and Groundlings Theaters and has performed with WIT since 2005. Justin has traveled up and down the east coast performing at improv festivals, and now can say he is the first Witizen to perform with every ensemble in Washington Improv Theater. Justin will be hitting the big screen in the fall in the documentary, Driving Blind, an around-the-country road trip chronicling the vision loss of him and his brother. He is also now, officially, a starving artist; he quit his job to pursue acting full time before he loses the ability to do so, visually. He also likes ninjas and thinks you're cute.

Greer Smith has the time of her life as a part of the cast of iMusical and she's never felt that way before.  Cue lift.  This could be love!  Greer has been watching improv since her mid-western college days, and began performing after daring herselft to take classes at the DC Improv and Washington Improv Theater.  In addition to iMusical, this summer you can see Greer with WIT's onesixtyone, in the cast of WIRT (during Fringe!), and in Comedy Sportz and the Blue Show at the Comedy Spot in Ballston (VA).

 

Ever since Letty Muse Tomlinson saw Annie, at age 6, she knew what life needed most was the dynamic song break. Ever since she faked her way into a preschool play at 4, she knew what performance needed most was unpredictability. iMusical marries those impulses. A pursuer of improv since the advent of the iPod, she has performed with Comedy Gears, ComedySportz and the Blue Show. She has also ventured into the world of sketch comedy with The Couch Potatoes. Letty currently writes, provides voice-over talent for various projects and thinks you're swell!

 

Josh Waytz is excited to join the cast of iMusical. He is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, not to be confused with Northeastern University in Boston, MA or Northwestern Christian College in Roseville, MN; both of which he is significantly more often congratulated with/understood to have attended upon telling people that he went to "Northwestern." At Northwestern he performed with the improv troupes Mee-Ow and Out Da Box. A Minneapolis native, he longs for cooler days.