"It all started with an idea, a curiosity, and a trip to the aquarium! The summer before my second year of graduate school I took a spur of the moment trip to the Honolulu Aquarium. When passing the sea horse exhibit I became entranced with a creature that I had never even heard of before, a Sea Dragon. It was right then and there I decided that I knew a show had to be created about or using them as a character, and I had feeling that TVY would be the perfect vehicle for such a curious, majestic, and tiny creature!

Even with this idea in place, nothing really got off the ground until I started my partnership with Prince Jonah Kūhiō Elementary School Pre-K class over the 2019-2020 school year. Using the students' interest in the ocean already reflected in their current curriculum, myself, and eventually Thea Wigglesworth, infused that curriculum with dramatic and creative play to create this undersea adventure. While this experience was originally created to be for the classroom, the global pandemic opened up a whole new possibility and mode of creation -- online!

With this new hurdle, the creative team set off to rethink this experience digitally and with the help of artists/puppeteers from all across the United States (from Hawai'i to New York) to reimagine this whole journey. Using the students' ideas and original creative input as well as the input and creative energies of our cast we were able to create something truly magical. " - Kimberlee Stone

Follow this link to experience the full adventure: www.seadragondreams.com