About Us

Actor's Crib, Incorporated's Mission Statement


Actor's Crib Incorporated will entertain, educate, and affect social change through improvisational theatre without regard to sex, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, race, socio-economic circumstance, and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities. ACI will always offer both hands-on and observational options of participation. ACI enthusiastically encourages efforts to deepen understanding of self and others by emphasizing awareness of similarities and differences, and by doing so, lessening misunderstanding and intolerance. ACI will motivate and empower individuals through our entertainment, education, and efforts to affect social change, most importantly, by offering our time and service to as many under-served members of our local, national, and international communities as possible.



Scott Pacitti's passion is improvisational theatre. He has dedicated over a decade of this life to this wonderous art form.

Over that decade 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.

He began his improv career with classes at, and eventually, as a cast member of a Charlotte improvisational comedy troupe lead by a decade long teaching and acting veteran of multiple Chicago improvisational theatre troupes. He has since started two of his own improv troupes, the Pink Turtle Sketchprov Experience and his current group, the Chuckleheads www.thechuckleheads.com.

He founded the 501c3 non-profit corporation, Actor's Crib, Inc. in 2006.

Scott 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 four years ago. He also is affiliated with Visit Charlotte, an organization that aids all aspects of the hospitality business both 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) and many other venues and arts organizations 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 organization with speeches and improv workshops for their most valued donors, board members, and renowned "Artists as Entrepreneurs" program.

He 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 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 college) and providing theatre classes and workshops to those students who might not normally be exposed to them.

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 most recently he has been working 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 provide programs for over 45 schools, offered over 100 hours of instruction and interacted with thousands of students of all ages.

2010 continues to be a very exciting year for Mr. Pacitti as he continues to be a full-time self-employed owner/operator of 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 inquire about his services.
He will again serve as the talent coordinator for Charlotte's Festival in the Park's Theatre Stage 2010. He was also recently proudly added to FITP's board of directors.

Scott's most ambitious projects to date are his continuing affiliations with: LifeSpan; United Methodist Agency for the Retarded (UMAR;) and Nevins, Inc. Each organization provides services targeted at developmentally disabled and challenged adults. Mr. Pacitti offers improvisational workshops to residents, clients, and members of these organizations to encourage them to greater participation and appreciation of the arts of all disciplines. He looks forward to affiliating Actor's Crib, Inc. with many more organizations that provide services to both adults and children in conjunction with this underserved community.

Scott hopes to expand his affiliations with: Arts Access (Raleigh, NC;) the North Carolina Arts Council; YMCA of Mecklenburg County; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Parks and Recreation; Hands on Charlotte and their members and affiliates; Gaston School of the Arts, the Rock Hill Community Theatre, the York County (SC) Arts Council; and the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte amongst a multitude of ongoing and upcoming projects, grant opportunities, and business partnerships in North, South Carolina and beyond.

Mr. Pacitti looks forward to continuing his lifelong journey of self-discovery through the wonderous 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, seemingly simple, but never to be underestimated goals of helping people: smile, learn, become more tolerant of themselves and others different than themselves, laugh, bringing people together, and having fun.

Scott deeply realizes how lucky he is to have been given these opportunities and takes these responsibilities, of entertaining, teaching, mentoring, volunteering, and making a difference in the community, extremely seriously as his life's calling.