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
Harli Meech
Aloha Teen Theatre
Harli has been dancing and performing with Kona Dance & Performing Arts and Aloha Theatre for over a decade, first as a student and now as an instructor. She has performed in a variety of productions at APAC, including Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, and many more. Drawing from years of experience on stage and in the classroom, she is passionate about creating a safe, encouraging environment where students can explore their creativity, build confidence, and develop a lifelong love for the performing arts.
Taylor Deskin
Theatre Thrivers
Taylor Deskin is the education coordinator at the Aloha Theatre, and she also teaches music at Konawaena Elementary School. She received her BA in Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado and her teaching licensure from the PEBC (she is also currently pursuing her masters in Music Education!) Her favorite roles include Johanna from Sweeney Todd and Schwartzy in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Taylor has graced the stage in numerous APAC productions including, Seussical, Men On Boats, and Margaritaville. She recently assistant-directed Carrie: the Musical, and is also a member of the theatre’s house improv troupe, the HI Line. Taylor 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.
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.
Build Your Own Show Camp 2026
Back by popular demand, Build Your Own Show is BACK for Fall Break 2026! In this week-long intensive, our young artists will engage in all aspects of stagecraft and will create and perform an original work!