About Us

Although Planet Improv is truly (much like all good improvisational theatre) a team effort (cast members, members of the board of directors, participants (workshop and class members as well as audience members,) its heart and soul is the vision of its founder, Executive Director, performer, director, host, salesman, marketer, and chief cook and bottle washer, Scott Pacitti.

Scott Pacitti’s passion is improvisational theatre.  He has dedicated over a decade of this life to this wondrous art-form.
 Over that time he has organized, booked, promoted, written, performed in, directed, cast, taught, hosted, and volunteered his time and efforts to hundreds of public, private, corporate and charity shows, workshops, charities, students, and classes for all ages and audiences of all types throughout North, South Carolina and beyond.

Mr. Pacitti began his improvisational career with classes at, and eventually, as a cast member of a Charlotte improvisational comedy troupe, Extremem Improv, led by a acting, teaching, and directing veteran of multiple Chicago improvisational theatre troupes.

Scott has since started two of his own improv troupes, the Pink Turtle Sketchprov Experience (now, his AAA affiliate farm improv team, Pink Turtle Improv) and (the Major League squad,) the Chuckleheads.

He founded Actor’s Crib, Inc., the philanthropic arm of Planet Improv, in 2006 and it was granted 501c3 non-profit status in early 2007.

He is a proud member of the Metrolina Theatre Association where he has assisted other highly respected Charlotte theatre veterans with their yearly “Unified Auditions” since the inception of that project.  He also is affiliated with Visit Charlotte, an organization that aids members and employees of the hospitality business and community locally, statewide, and throughout the United States. He has also worked with the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and in affiliation with and performed on stages, such as, the Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte, Theatre Charlotte, Story Slam Charlotte, The Charlotte Shakespeare Festival (Collaborative Arts,) the York, SC Arts Council and many other venues and arts organizations, large and small, throughout North and South Carolina.

Mr. Pacitti has enjoyed his long affiliation with the Arts and Science Council (ASC) of Charlotte where he has organized, hosted, and performed in many shows in conjunction with the ASC’s annual fundraising kick-off campaign with local, national, and international corporations.  He has also entertained the ASC staff, business colleagues, and their member organizations with speeches and improvisational theatre workshops for their most valued donors, board members, and the renowned “Artists as Entrepreneurs” program.

Scott is also quite proud of his association with the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center where he participated in multiple “Teaching Artists” workshops and has provided a workshop for their highly successful “Getting to Know the Show” series.

He eagerly visits and participates in local and national improvisational festivals including the annual North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival in Chapel Hill, NC and the Black Box Improv Festival in Atlanta, GA.

Scott has focused his and Planet Improv’s/Actor’s Crib, Inc’s. efforts (in addition to performing in monthly public and private improvisational theatre shows) on deepening and/or introducing of the basics of appreciation of improvisational theatre for students of all ages (pre-K through senior citizens) and by providing improvisational theatre classes and workshops to those students who might not normally be exposed to the art-form.

He has worked with children affiliated with the Old Courthouse Theatre in Concord, NC, the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Day School of Charlotte, Albemarle Middle School (as part of the Citizen Schools volunteer organization,) and with Pre-K, Elementary, and Middle School children through the After School Enrichment Program (ASEP) in conjunction with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. During the 2009-2010 school year he provided programs for over 45 schools, offered over 100 hours of instruction and interacted with thousands of students of all ages.

Mr. Pacitti continues his role as the owner/operator of Planet Improv/Actor’s Crib, Inc.  He is extremely grateful for all the new opportunities that he has worked hard to seek out and for those individuals and organizations that regularly inquire about his/their services.

He will again (for the third year since its inception) serve as the talent coordinator for Charlotte’s Festival in the Park’s Theatre Stage 2011.  He was also recently proudly added to FITP’s Board of Directors.

Scott is proud of his continuing collaborations with  LifeSpan, which targets their services toward developmentally disabled and challenged adults.  Mr. Pacitti offers improvisational workshops to residents, clients, and members of this wonderful organization to encourage inclusion, greater participation, and appreciation of the arts of all disciplines.

Mr. Pacitti looks forward to affiliating Planet Improv/Actor’s Crib, Inc. with many more organizations that provide services to both adults and children that are affiliated with communities underserved by the arts.

He looks forward to continuing his lifelong journey of self-discovery through the incredible art form of improvisational theatre and eagerly anticipates introducing, entertaining, deepening the appreciation of, and teaching improv (and its many, many “real life” lessons) to as many people of all ages, socioeconomic situations, and in as many venues as possible.

And last, but certainly not least, Scott hopes to continue his efforts of helping others: smile; laugh; learn; become more tolerant of and learn about others; bring people together; and have fun.

He is truly grateful of how lucky he is to have been given his gifts, talents, opportunities, and he takes his responsibilities, of entertaining, teaching, mentoring, volunteering, and making a difference with individuals and in the community seriously as his life’s calling.