Beginning Acting Class

Join our 6-session beginning acting course for late teens, adults, and seniors!

Each of the six sessions will introduce students to different aspects of stage acting. You will build core skills like relaxation and having fun, listening, body/sensory awareness, basic scene and monologue breakdowns, and what to do at rehearsals and auditions. On day one, you’ll be acting.

Kumu Kahua Theatre Artistic Director Harry Wong III will teach the class. Class maximum will be 12 students. Students should have little to no acting experience.

Once chosen to be part of the class, students will receive monologues to select from via email (students need to pick one before class - students only need to pick one and do not need to memorize it anything).

Classes will be HPU Aloha Tower campus. Classes are Sundays, September 20, 26, October 4, 11, 18, and 25, 9:30 am to 12:30 p.m.

This class is FREE to attend, part of Kumu Kahua’s STAGES (Supporting Theatre Arts-Guidance and Education Series), providing free and low-cost learning opportunities for theatre arts creatives at every stage of experience and adulthood; kupuna registrants are encouraged.

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ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Harry Wong III has directed over 100 plays in his career, 52 of those at KKT as Artistic Director. Harry co-founded HSF and served as a founding Board Member of the Lizard Loft. Awards he has received include the 2015 Ho‘okele Award; second recipient to sustain quality service in the non-profit art industry sector. 2010 recipient, Outstanding Alumni of HCC, 1999 recipient of the SFCA Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for Theatre Directing; first non-playwright to be honored; 1996 Princess Grace Award for Theatre Directing Recipient; 1996 Lincoln Center Theatre Directorʻs Lab participant; result of a national search of young directors; 1995-1996 Allan Lee Hughes Fellow at Arena Stage Washington DC; result of a national search of postgraduate people of color entering the regional theatre scene and the 1991 &1993 Masako Sakamoto Scholarship for Acting; given to Hawai‘i High School graduates studying acting or playwriting.