Schools
"It was exhilarating to see our kids so involved, entertained and educated" -Ashley Herring, Lifelines program
Stolen Chair is known for its highly stylized work, drawn from a diverse array of theatrical and cinematic performance techniques, and our educational programs bring this stylistic exploration into your classroom. Stolen Chair is now booking workshops and residencies for K-12 students in tri-state area public and private schools. All workshops and residencies are scalable in length, address critical benchmarks from the Blueprint for Theater, and can culminate in a public sharing of the students’ work.
"Jon Stancato’s return to Fordham High School for the Arts for a second-year residency in Commedia Dell Arte, confirms the impact the stylized art form has had on drama students from the Bronx. Now in eleventh-grade the students have remembered much of the history and the stock character work from their sophomore year under Jon’s tutelage. They are now deepening their improvisational skills and mask work with enthusiasm and newfound proficiency." -Marlene May, Fordham High School for the Arts
Stolen Chair is the only organization in New York offering young people the opportunity to study commedia dell'arte. You can read about that popular residency here. We also offer workshops and residiencies in physical comedy, silent film melodrama, clown, found object puppetry, and stage combat.
Stolen Chair's teaching artists have taught at Sacred Heart, Fordham High School for the Arts, York Early College Academy, Muscota New School, Greenwich Country Day School, Staples High School, Deer Park High School, Robert Frost Middle Schoool, The Heathcote School, Lower East Side Prep, Information Technology High School, McKinley Intermediate School, Princeton High School, Wyckoff Prep, Millstone River School, The Mickey Mantle School, The Greenwich Historical Society, and Life Lines Community Arts program.
Please direct all inquiries to thechairs[at]stolenchair.org.