[5][6] Its shows are based at Studio Theatre on the 14th Street corridor,[needs update] although its teams also use several other venues.

[5] It was revived by Douglis and several others as a consensus-based collective in 1998,[5] and performed initially in the basement of the Universalist National Memorial Church, and soon after other venues around D.C.[citation needed] It began offering its own improv training program in 2000.

In 2004, it hired its first full-time artistic and executive director, Mark Chalfant.

[8] WIT hosts over 300 performances annually featuring a number of different in-house ensembles and visiting teams.

[17] WIT also hosts an annual improv marathon festival, Improvalooza,[18] a March madness-style competition, dubbed the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament,[19] and performances or lessons at various other venues, such as local schools[2] and the Kennedy Center.