Local actor and PHIT instructor Nick Gillette began performing improv in 2002 with his Colgate University team Charred Goosebeak, with appearances at Skidmore College's National College Comedy Festival and the Del Close Marathon in NYC. Over the years he has studied under Armando Diaz, Keith Johnstone, and Joe Bill. Nick currently improvises with several groups, including PHIT house team Mayor Karen, the unabashedly uninhibited quintro Medic!!, and Har, the nation's premier Scandinavian furniture retail store oriented guerilla improvisation team.

Nick also performs with the anarcho-gypsy burlesque troupe Cabaret Red Light, and works as a tour guide at Eastern State Penitentiary. One of his longtime favorite hobbies is playing 2nd edition Shadowrun, where he pretends he is a cybernetically enhanced hacker hiding out in central America.