Tracey Stretton

Founder & Director

Bachelor of Arts., Dip. Tchg., Dip Dance Drama in Education.

Started the business in 1992! Tracey genuinely believes that in this digital age, young people need opportunities to socialise and express themselves more than ever before. She has witnessed first hand over the years how performing arts changes lives. She loves what Pform does in our local communities and is passionate about offering our programmes to as many children and young adults that she can. She is committed to finding the best tutors in the industry who have a passion for performance and who can inspire children and young adults to be the best versions of themselves on and off the stage!

Favourite Musical: Les Miserables | Book of Mormon
Favourite Quote: "Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive!"

Mike Stretton

Founder & Director

Bachelor of Arts (Education), Dip Teaching

Started the business in 1992! Mike is passionate about his family, his business, his mates and the Wahs! You will find he has read every history book that has ever been written and when family members battle with insomnia he kindly reads aloud a chapter to ease them off to sleep!

Favourite Musical: Chicago
Favourite Quote: "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see" Winston Churchill

Tom Wardle

Education Manager | Flying Monkey Theatre Co. | HQ Team

ATCL Dip. Teaching Speech and Drama | UCOL Certificate in Performing Arts

Pform team since 2012!

Too loud and energetic for his own good. Tom will perform Shakespeare at every opportunity he gets (requested or not). He is obsessed with Batman, literature, poetry, classic cinema and never turns down pizza when offered.

Favourite Musical: Man of La Mancha
Favourite Quote: "Love and success - always in that order. It's that simple and that difficult."

Rose Stretton

L A Tour Manager | Flying Monkey Theatre Co. | Glee Club | HQ Team

Bachelor of Arts (Ancient History) | Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing)

Pform.nz team since 2003! Lover of yoga, journaling and going on adventures. You will never get through a conversation with Rose without her bursting into song (seriously).

Favourite Musical: Les Miserables
Favourite Quote: "Today is life, tomorrow never comes."

Ella Whitefield

Christchurch Manager

Bachelor of Screen Arts- Film & TV

Pform team since 2020! When she's not creating magic in the kitchen with bread & baking, she's out with her camera capturing magic & getting involved in her local community!!

Favourite Musical: Newsies & Cats
Favourite Quote: "Because I knew you, I have been changed for good."

Rebecca Dreyer

Sirens Comp Squad | Aslan Dance Troupe

Bachelor of Science (Human Nutrition) | Master of Health Science

Pform team since 2024! An imaginative individual who loves to spend her downtime sewing, crocheting and painting. She's the person you want on your team for quiz night and she'll never turn down a little sweet treat!

Favourite Musical: Wicked
Favourite Quote: "It's better to live a life of oh-well's than a life of what-if's."

Pearl Stretton

Sirens Comp Squad | Aslan Dance Troupe

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Education)

Pform.nz team since 2006! Pearl's two greatest passions are children and the performing arts, so naturally she feels most herself when she's in front of a Pform.nz class. She's likely to be found with an iced matcha in hand and finding any excuse to watch a musical.

Favourite Musical: Chicago
Favourite Quote: “The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde

Kyla Blennerhassett

Sirens Comp Squad | Aslan Dance Troupe

Bachelor of Communications

Pform.nz team since 2024! An icon with a love of painting, beach days, camping and performing! Guilty pleasures include pretending she's on MasterChef and singing alone in her car.

Favourite Musical: Joseph & the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar
Favourite Quote: "Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

Logan McAlister

Flying Monkey Theatre Co. | Glee Club

BMus (Hons) Bachelor of Classical Music, Honours

Loves Pokémon, cool hats and cooking. His specialities are yapping and singing; you’ll hear Logan coming before you see him!

Favourite Musical: Hadestown
Favourie Quote: "I'd rather make mistakes than make nothing at all"

Bella King

Diploma in Screen Acting and Theatre at South Seas Film School

When she's not busy being sarcastic, you'll find her nerding out over films, video games and dance. Will absolutely inhale a charcuterie board and is a bit of a yapper, but despite being silly, she's very genuine at heart.

Favourite Musicals: Grease and Beetlejuice
Favourite Quote: 'What if it doesn't come true? Ah, but what if it does?'

Millie Eaton

Diploma in Music | Conjoint BA (Education) and BC (Communications)

Pform team since 2015! The friendliest person you'll meet! Always down to have a boogie, go for a walk or just stay inside binging 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Hamilton' over and over again.

Favourite Musical: Mamma Mia!
Favourite Quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

Talia Kermode

New Zealand Certificate in AC-CA

Pform.nz team since 2007! Energetic and passionate. Often found enjoying the outdoors - crystal-hunting, fishing and camping.

Favourite Musical: Cats, Hairspray and Mamma Mia!
Favourite Quote: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are." - Alice in Wonderland

Sophie McKinnon

Super friendly with a passion for children. Sophie is always down for an impromptu performance at any time of the day.

Favourite Musical: - Mamma Mia and Wicked
Favourite Quote: - “Be the reason someone believes in their own magic”

Chelsie Brown

Pform.nz team since 2015! Chelsie is a TANK fanatic whose ideal day consists of reading at the beach and spending time with friends. She will never miss the opportunity to meet a new cat.

Favourite Musical: Wicked
Favourite Quote: "You are only bored if you are boring."

Sarah Ramsey

Dance enthusiast with a love for performing, car karaoke, and pretending life’s a musical. Guilty of choreographing in supermarket aisles.

Favourite Musical: Chicago
Favourite Quote: “Just wait and see, it’s not the end of the story” - Conan Gray

Ilse Betanzo

Pform team since 2019! Ilse loves to go to the beach and spends her free time practicing manicures on friends. Her guilty pleasures include watching love island and eating cookie dough.

Favourite Musical: Mamma Mia
Favourite Quote: “Dance it out”

Sam Bremner

Bachelor of Arts (Drama, Film, Media and Television)

Pform team since 2022! Loves to spend time creating Pinterest-worthy baking creations, crocheting, watching movies...and a cheeky bit of reality TV!

Favourite Musical: Hamilton
Favourite Quote: “The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph.” - Marvin Philips

Morgan Dewar

An optimistic, kind person with a love for challenges of all kinds. Morgan loves hunting through op-shops for hidden gems with friends and baking increasingly elaborate desserts.

Favourite Musical: Into the Woods
Favourite Quote: "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor" - Franklin D Roosevelt

Ella Jamison

LOVES to sing, enjoys making music with friends for fun, & loves everything movies and media. She always has a movie recommendation for anyone asking! Super bubbly, friendly person, always making new friends everywhere she goes!!

Favourite Musical: Hamilton & Little Shop of Horrors
Favourite Quote: "Everything happens for a reason"

Frankie Watt

In Frankie's spare time, she hides in her room writing songs and watching movies or TV shows. She insists all the binge-watching is research for her future Oscar!

Favourite Musical: Into The Woods
Favourite Quote: "Carpe Diem"

Myles Westbury

Loves Movies, Music, and Books, and loves to eat cheese and crackers while rewatching rom-coms. Never stops talking unless you bribe him with a smoothie.

Favourite Musical: Chicago
Favourite Quote: “Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world”

Katherine Laidler

Acting Diploma (The Actors Program)

Favourite Musical: Chicago | Jesus Christ Superstar
Favourite Quote: "All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them"

Kate is an actress across Film, TV, Voice, Theatre and obviously... a full-time Drama Queen. She LOVES kids and loves expanding their creative skills, confidence and JOY.

Jess Bennett

Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Acting)

A creative individual who loves DnD, watching movies, and going on a good adventure walk with her friends!

Favourite Musical: Hadestown
Favourite Quote: “Find out who you are and do it on purpose” - Dolly Parton

Chloe Knight

I'm Chloe Knight, a former Swim Teacher, a current relief teacher at Mangawhai Village Preschool, and also a uni student studying through NZTC. I have a passion for teaching and helping children grow to be the best they can be. I volunteer at Helping Paws cattery, and never miss an opportunity to spend quality time with my friends and family. I believe being kind is the absolute best thing you can be.

Favourite Musical: Wicked
Favourite Quote: "Everything happens for a reason"

Will Stretton

Diploma in Film and Content Creation

Pform.nz team since 2009! Obsessed with superheroes, animals and anything out-of-this-world. Major fan of macaroni cheese.

Favourite Musical: Chicago
Favourite Quote: "Where there's a Will, there's a way!"

Lara Stevens

Pform team since 2024! An imaginative individual who loves sushi, art, watching animated films, hanging out with her animals and would never turn down a sweet treat!

Favourite Musical: Into the Woods
Quote/Motto: "Have fun even if it's not the same sort of fun everyone else is having."

Dani Hockings

A girl with a big family who loves making up stories & enjoys giggles with all of her younger cousins. Somebody who is always up for a musical watch, performance or audition.

Favourite Musical: The Sound of Music
Favourite Quote: "In a world where you can be anything, be kind"