Riffing on a format first tried out at New York’s Upright Citizens Brigadetheater, Philly Improv Theater is aiming to shoot a fully livestreamed original improv film.

In Via Satellite: Improvised Film, a group of 10 performers will get the prompt of a movie genre from the audience. They will then scurry out of the theater — located on 20th and Sansom — and livestream their performances into the theater, where directors Kristen Schier and Andrew Whitehead look to mix and cut performances into an original film whose dialogue and theme are wholly improvised.

“This is the first the time something like this will happen in Philly,” Whitehead said. “This is going to be truly an improvised show where there is no definitive theme and actors will create whatever they feel inspired to at the moment.”

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