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Art Thieves Conservatory
Dates: Wednesday 1/15-3/26 3:30-5. No class 2/19.
Performances: Wednesday 3/26 at 5pm and Sunday 3/30 at 2pm.
Location: The Philipstown Depot Theatre
Age: 5-8 grade
Instructor: Bill Coelius
Cost: $395
Class size: Max of 15

Art Thieves Conservatory is a hands-on, fully immersive theatrical experience for the brilliant and sneaky. Improv, singing, dancing, monologues, writing, YouTube videos and smeared clown make-up all wait within the walls of the ATC. (Previous experience and/or actual skill at singing and dancing not required, and if bad at it, must be really bad.)

Each year, the Art Thieves Conservatory chooses to steal a regular theatre production and create their own version. The regular actors are cast aside, the programs are torn up, and the audience is locked in. Details to follow. (Keep this to yourselves for now, as we don't want to give it away!) 

Each Art Thieves Conservatory student must follow a modest but strict manifesto:
1. No original props. You cannot use the original props of the stolen production. You must make your own with duct tape, newspaper, tin foil, and any recyclable material you can fit into your backpack. 
2. No original lighting. You cannot use the lighting grid of the captured theater. You must use flashlights and scoop lights and anything else you can fit into your backpack. 
3. We must write our own script. This stolen version is completely up to us. What does this play mean to you? You can keep what you want and toss the rest out the door. You can introduce new characters, monologues, dance numbers, or songs. Every production is stolen but original. Oh -- and performed in under 37 minutes (the average police department response time). 


The Dean of the Art Thieves Conservatory is professional actor Bill Coelius, a resident of Cold Spring, TV/Film teacher at T. Schreiber Studio in NYC, has over 20 years of arts in education experience and is being released on bail for this special circumstance. www.billcoelius.com

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Art Thieves Conservatory 
9y - 14y 5 - 8 W  01/15/2025 - 03/26/2025
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Philipstown Depot Theatre 		$395.00 Res, $410.00 Non-Res
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