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.

Like Judy Garland, Prince, and Spam, Jamie Bingner is one of the many wonderful things to originate from Minnesota. Jamie is a graduate of the WIT training program, and fell into improv like most people do sky diving: suddenly and with great enthusiasm. In addition to imusical, Jamie is a founding member of the Harold Team, Private Elevator. Jamie is a professional do-gooder by trade, and thinks you should do good too.

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.

Al Hart (Accompanist) works in the greater DC area as a musical theater teacher/director, vocal coach and accompanist, and is thrilled to discover a welcoming home for his particular musical voice in iMusical. Al has been an improvising pianist as long as he remembers, (preferring it to practicing.) This love of “just making it up” has been put to use in the dance world with such famous companies as Boston Ballet and The Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, the improvisation of avant-garde music, church music and music for children. For several years Al served as pianist/music director for DC’s beloved NowThis! improvisational musical troupe. As a composer, playwright and lyricist he is currently focusing on works for children and contemporary liturgical music. Al earned his BA from Tufts University, and his MM from Boston Conservatory of Music,and studied piano privately with Boston’s legendary Mme.Margaret Stedman Chaloff.

Karen Lange likes to pretend. She started improvising after her friends staged an intervention and sent her to classes. She has been active in the DC improv scene for several years, performing with iMusical, POTUS Among Us, Seasonal Disorder, and ComedySportz. Recent scripted roles include Maggie in Life with Father at American Century Theater, Martha in Unintended Consequences as part of the DC Fringe Festival, Bunny in House of Blue Leaves, and Janie in Wonder of the World. Karen's most recent film, The Bad News Bearer, which she co-wrote, won a script award and the Best Picture prize at the DC 48-Hour film festival in 2008. Karen is a graduate of the Studio Theater Conservatory. She teaches improvisation and musical improvisation at WIT.

David Litt is from New York City, where he began doing stand-up at 14. He began improvising 5 years ago with The Yale Exit Players, and has studied improv at WIT and the Upright Citizens' Brigade Theater. He's also contributed headlines to The Onion, published pieces on McSweeneys.net, and edited The Record, the country’s oldest college humor magazine. He is currently working as a speechwriter in DC.

Improv first infected Richie Pepio in his teenage years when he was cast in SOFA at Potomac Falls High School. After recently graduating with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University and directing a production of Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid Off-Off Broadway, he’s now more cultured, more refined, and, like a full bodied wine, only gets better with age. A student of the UCB Theatre, Richie helped start Hofstra’s first official improv group Tequila Mockingbird, has performed with Loudoun’s Off The Cuff and Victorious Secret, and is ready to take on the beast that is musical improv!

Travis 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, as well as a season ticket owner for the Minnesota Vikings.  He lives in Silver Spring with his dreamgirl wife, Melissa, and their bouncing baby boy Benjamin.  More info about Travis here.

Natalie Pyle has studied improv for several years in acting classes at the North East School of the Arts, in San Antonio, Texas, and at the London Dramatic Academy in, well … London. Natalie is a graduate of The Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre, where she was also a member of Impulse Control, a lively improv troupe of clever and wacky students. She is excited to be performing alongside such talented artists as she continues to discover the DC theatre scene.

Greer Smith has to make up songs, because she has no memory for lyrics. It's a trait that drives men crazy, but not in the way her parents had hoped she might. Greer has loved watching improv since her mid-western college days, and started performing here in DC after double-daring herself to "stop being a scaredy cat and take classes at the DC Improv and Washington Improv Theater." In addition to iMusical, you can see Greer regularly in Comedy Sportz and the Blue Show at the Comedy Spot in Ballston (VA).