Mission
PHIT helps adults build strong improv, acting, and performance skills through supportive, structured, and genuinely fun training.
We create learning spaces where students can take creative risks, build confidence, strengthen collaboration, and grow as performers — whether they are stepping into improv for the first time, returning to the stage, or developing toward more advanced ensemble work.
Vision
PHIT’s vision is to be Philadelphia’s home for adult improv and performance training that is structured, supportive, and genuinely fun — a place where students build strong foundations, grow artistically, and find meaningful pathways from the classroom to the stage.
We believe performance is not just a final product. It is part of how performers learn: by applying technique, listening deeply, taking risks, working with others, receiving notes, and discovering what their choices do in front of an audience.
Values
Safety & Accountability
PHIT is committed to providing a warm, welcoming, and respectful space for students, audiences, performers, instructors, and staff.
We aim to foster an environment rooted in openness, accountability, and care. Discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, or retaliation are not tolerated.
All students, performers, instructors, staff, and community members are expected to follow PHIT’s Code of Conduct and Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Policy.
Code of Conduct
Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Policy
Inclusion & Belonging
PHIT aims to reflect the diversity of voices, experiences, and perspectives that make Philadelphia a rich creative city.
We want students, audiences, performers, and instructors to feel not only welcomed, but respected, heard, and able to participate fully. Inclusion is not just about who is in the room. It is also about how people are treated once they are there.
Joy & Creative Risk
PHIT believes joy is part of the work.
Improv and performance training ask people to listen, take risks, recover from mistakes, collaborate, and try again. We believe that process can be challenging, playful, surprising, and deeply rewarding.
The laughs matter. So does the trust that makes those laughs possible.
Strong Foundations
PHIT teaches practical, repeatable performance skills: listening, agreement, presence, emotional connection, character, environment, collaboration, commitment, and ensemble awareness.
We believe strong training gives students more freedom, not less. Clear structure helps performers take bigger risks, make stronger choices, and grow with confidence.
Coached and Challenged — Kindly
PHIT students deserve useful feedback, clear expectations, and a room where they can grow without being shamed.
We believe performers improve through practice, notes, repetition, and reflection. Our goal is to challenge students with care and help them build skills they can carry into class, performance, work, and life.
Ensemble Over Ego
Strong performers make each other look good.
PHIT values listening outward, sharing focus, supporting the group, and treating every person in the room as essential to the work. Whether in a class, rehearsal, workshop, or performance, the best work happens when people commit to something larger than individual spotlight.
Training That Leads Somewhere
PHIT is building clearer pathways for adult students to begin, continue, deepen, perform, and stay connected.
From classes and clinics to Community Night, PHEST, and advanced opportunities like PHIT Ensembles, our goal is to help students develop strong foundations, grow artistically, and find meaningful ways to bring their work in front of an audience.
