Arts Education
Workshops, camps, and classes for performers of all ages.
Our Curriculum
A pathway for every age and stage.
Little Theatre Club
Join the club and explore the magic of the arts through games, crafts, music, and more! This series focuses on theatre basics through imagination, storytelling, musicality, and structured play.
Objective: Students will learn basic theatre vocabulary (SL, SR, US, DS, neutral), obtain foundational practices in the elements of theatre, and gain beginner storytelling skills.
Theatre Thrivers
Exploring fundamental skills such as script reading, projection, enunciation, blocking, and characterization. The series is aimed to prepare keiki for the main stage.
Objective: Students will gain knowledge in fundamental theatre skills and confidence in performance technique.
Tuesday Troupers
A performance-based class for children who have advanced from Theatre Thrivers. Exploring intermediate skills such as improvisation, scene analysis, physicality, and dialect.
Objective: Students will gain knowledge in intermediate theatre skills and confidence in performance technique. Students will leave series with motivation and preparedness to advance to ATT.
Aloha Teen Theatre
ATT encourages teen leadership through theatre education, community outreach projects, and public performance opportunities. Teens collaborate through games and hands-on activities to apply the tools that are demonstrated in the theatre industry.
Objective: Students will gain beginner-intermediate leveled elements in all aspects of the professional theatre industry while practicing leadership roles in marketing, directing, and performance work.
Meet the Instructors
Brooke Aragon
Little Theatre Club
Brooke has been a part of the Aloha Theatre community on and off since 2013, appearing in Beauty and the Beast and 9 to 5. An ATT alumni herself, she has been involved with the education program since 2019. Brooke held her own week-long Jr. stage makeup camp in 2023 and is working full time to make her goal of becoming a teacher a reality.
Taylor Deskin
Theatre Thrivers
Taylor Deskin is currently teaching Performing Arts at Holualoa Elementary school. She received her BA in Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. Taylor has graced the stage in numerous APAC productions including 9 to 5: The Musical and Men On Boats. She is passionate about watching her students discover themselves through the art of theatre!
Dan McCoy
Tuesday Troupers
For more than a decade Dan has been training in the art of improvisation, taking classes from top industry voices and performing on a half dozen teams. You may have seen Dan on the Aloha Theatre stage in 'The Laramie Project' or as George Bailey in 'It's a Wonderful Life'. His desire is to enable creative people to get their work made and seen.
Julie Williams
Songsters
Julie is excited to be leading Songsters this semester! Julie has over 15 years of experience teaching piano. She has taught elementary school music at Konawaena Elementary School and has sung with the Kona Choral Society community choir for the past four years. Julie is also a nurse at the local hospital’s chemotherapy infusion center. She loves working with children and creating a fun, encouraging environment where kids can discover joy and confidence through music!
Educational Impact
Education is part of our mission. Every year Aloha Theatre serves hundreds of students all over the island. Our students have gone on to become theatre professionals, teachers, and overall amazing human beings. Our classes teach valuable life skills like confidence, public speaking, and problem solving.
Aloha Teen Theatre
Aloha Teen Theatre is a FREE program, open to youth between the ages of 13 and 18.
Little Theatre Club
Little Theatre Club introduces keiki aged 5-7 to the world of theatre!
Tuesday Troupers
A performance-based class for children who have advanced from Theatre Thrivers.
Theatre Thrivers
Exploring fundamental skills such as script reading, projection, enunciation, blocking, and characterization. The series is aimed to prepare keiki for the main stage.
Songsters
Songsters is a 60 minute singing class for keiki ages 7 to 11 years old.
Stand-up Comedy 101
Stand-up Comedy 101 is a course for people who have never tried stand-up comedy and desire to learn the fundamentals before they get onstage.
Teen Improv Workshop
Join instructor Taylor Deskin as she teaches you the basics of yes and-ing and creating comedic moments on the spot!
Slow Comedy: Improv Comedy Workshop
Slow Comedy: A workshop that focuses on slow comedy, finding the funny in the every day, tune into to what is right in front of you, and learn how each thing your scene partner does and says, is a veritable gift.