Dandylyon Drama Youth Performing Arts Programs
Shoreline Community College, 16101 Greenwood Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133
About
Dandylyon Drama Performing Arts Programs offers activities such as Pop Stars Theatre, theater productions, afterschool enrichment, evening classes, summer camps, and community theater productions. Participants sing along to favorite pop songs, explore choreography, and take part in a karaoke-style concert. The program also includes classes, auditions, a Musical Theater Club, and CAPE (Creative Adaptive Performance Ensemble).
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Price: Tuition $175 (DDA Respite Funds Accepted); Tuition VARIES
Dandylyon Drama is an educational non-profit performing arts organization whose mission is to grow more creative, compassionate, and courageous people through quality and accessible performing arts education. It offers “Pay What You Can” tuition on all programs and provides tuition assistance every quarter for one program per student. The organization is committed to accessibility and reasonable accommodations, including information about venue accessibility, interpretation and translation, visual calendars, visual/verbal communication tools, large-font materials, and captions. Its summer camps at Shoreline’s Cromwell Park are held in a beautiful outdoor setting and serve ages 4–10. Programs for adults with disabilities include the Musical Theater Club at Friendship Adventures and CAPE, which offer quarterly opportunities for adults with disabilities, and the organization creates opportunities for teens and adults with disabilities to create and perform.
Dandylyon Drama was founded in August of 2009, and over the last 15 years it has produced nearly 90 plays and musicals and nurtured 10 new works. The founding artistic director, Melani Lyons, earned bachelor’s degrees in Music and Theatre from Seattle Pacific University and serves as Artistic Director, Director, and Playwright. Teaching artists and staff include Eliana Megargee, Lexi Burke, Mia Habermann, Candiece Rutherford, Melissa Pereira, Katie Dreessen, Kayin Thompson, and Aidyn Stevens, who bring backgrounds in theatre, musical theatre, acting, music, and performance, along with degrees and studies from institutions such as Theatre Academy London, Muhlenberg College, Marymount Manhattan College, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Western Washington University, The AMDA College of The Performing Arts, and programs in Dramatic Arts and Theology.
Dandylyon Drama partners with cities and community centers like the City of Shoreline and Shoreline Community College, as well as Friendship Adventures, to bring the arts to neighborhoods. It co-produces community theater productions, launches local new works, and partners with volunteer artists, serving students in North King and South Snohomish counties and the Edmonds, Northshore, Seattle, and Shoreline school districts. Parent feedback includes comments that efforts are noticed and appreciated by kids and adults, that teaching artists did an excellent job getting a relatively reserved child comfortable and building confidence, and that children have fun and feel proud in a supportive environment.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Price: Tuition $175 (DDA Respite Funds Accepted); Tuition VARIES
Dandylyon Drama is an educational non-profit performing arts organization whose mission is to grow more creative, compassionate, and courageous people through quality and accessible performing arts education. It offers “Pay What You Can” tuition on all programs and provides tuition assistance every quarter for one program per student. The organization is committed to accessibility and reasonable accommodations, including information about venue accessibility, interpretation and translation, visual calendars, visual/verbal communication tools, large-font materials, and captions. Its summer camps at Shoreline’s Cromwell Park are held in a beautiful outdoor setting and serve ages 4–10. Programs for adults with disabilities include the Musical Theater Club at Friendship Adventures and CAPE, which offer quarterly opportunities for adults with disabilities, and the organization creates opportunities for teens and adults with disabilities to create and perform.
Dandylyon Drama was founded in August of 2009, and over the last 15 years it has produced nearly 90 plays and musicals and nurtured 10 new works. The founding artistic director, Melani Lyons, earned bachelor’s degrees in Music and Theatre from Seattle Pacific University and serves as Artistic Director, Director, and Playwright. Teaching artists and staff include Eliana Megargee, Lexi Burke, Mia Habermann, Candiece Rutherford, Melissa Pereira, Katie Dreessen, Kayin Thompson, and Aidyn Stevens, who bring backgrounds in theatre, musical theatre, acting, music, and performance, along with degrees and studies from institutions such as Theatre Academy London, Muhlenberg College, Marymount Manhattan College, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Western Washington University, The AMDA College of The Performing Arts, and programs in Dramatic Arts and Theology.
Dandylyon Drama partners with cities and community centers like the City of Shoreline and Shoreline Community College, as well as Friendship Adventures, to bring the arts to neighborhoods. It co-produces community theater productions, launches local new works, and partners with volunteer artists, serving students in North King and South Snohomish counties and the Edmonds, Northshore, Seattle, and Shoreline school districts. Parent feedback includes comments that efforts are noticed and appreciated by kids and adults, that teaching artists did an excellent job getting a relatively reserved child comfortable and building confidence, and that children have fun and feel proud in a supportive environment.
Last updated June 12, 2026.
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