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!"

Tom Wardle

Education Manager

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."

Eva Fala

Pform team since 2024! Eva is a confident individual who loves exploring, travelling, reading and is always up for learning something new.
Most days you can find her indulging in some reality TV with some salt and vinegar chips and a sprite zero in hand!

Favourite Musical: Wicked & Six
Favourite Quote: "Laughter is like a reset button for your soul!"

Ellie Bambury

Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts

Often powered by cheese and/or coffee. Always down for kitchen dance breaks and spontaneous carpool karaoke. She loves getting out into nature, travelling when she can, and always keeps an eye out for her next great script idea.

Favourite Musical - Mary Poppins
Favourite Quote: - "Whether you believe you can or you can't, you're right" Henry Ford

Ella Whitefield

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."

Zoe Bailey

Favourite Musical: Tick, Tick.. Boom!
Favourite Quote: You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In Zoe's spare time, you'll find her driving around listening to music, looking for hidden gems at the flea market, or trying to get her friends to do embarrassing stuff in public.

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!"

Dani King

Bachelor of Arts Majoring in Psychology and Criminology

Dani is a theatre fanatic who will never pass up the opportunity to spend an evening watching a show. Dani loves a good game-night, an iced matcha and a boogie with her friends.

Favourite Musical: Hamilton & Legally Blonde

Favourite Quote: “...those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" - Nietzsche

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."

Tate Miller

Pform.nz team since 2023! Tate is an optimistic guy who loves filling his spare time with video games, the latest Blockbuster movies, and ice-cream.

Favourite Musical: High School Musical
Favourite Quote: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott

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

Betsabé Quintero

Favourite Musical: Mamma Mia...

Betsabé is an Argentinian-born drama teacher, clown and joy enthusiast. She believes in the power of play, stories, and a good empanada (pastry). She brings big energy, a bigger heart, and just the right amount of controlled chaos to every room.

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.

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”

Shaira Maryz Adriano

Bachelor Operations & Management

A part-time tutor and full-time Disney enthusiast. Makes learning feel magical! She may know every single song in Frozen, Moana, The Lion King and The Greatest Showman (Okay, fine.. she does!) So, if you love musicals, dancing and ice cream, you've found a soul-mate!

Favourite Musical: Frozen | Moana | The Lion King | The Greatest Showman
Favourite Quote: "Letting my love for the arts lead the way—wherever life takes me."

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

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

Rose Stretton

L A Tour Manager

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."

Logan McAlister

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"

Rebecca Dreyer

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

Confidence Project Manager

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

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

Juliette Edwards

Bachelor of Science majoring in Psychology

Juliette is an energetic, high-spirited, loud and diligent person with a passion for the performing arts. She enjoys painting, reading, watching rom-coms, having dance parties and getting to know others, hence the psychology degree. If you can’t find her she’s off battling a hay-fever attack in a flower field.

Favourite Musical: Chess
Favourite Quote: “To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.” — Hopi Proverb

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

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."

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"

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

Kyla Blennerhassett

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

Marise Reiher

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, Human Development and Dance)

Pform.nz team since 2024! Bubbly personality who dabbles in photography and loves swimming and reading. Her guilty pleasures include listening to Elvis Presley and indulging in a cheeky chocolate-covered strawberry!

Favourite Musical: Grease
Favourite Quote: "I like to move it, move it!"

Faith Ward

Diploma in Screen Production

Faith’s theatre journey started way back in the day, when she developed a knack for talking in silly accents (and convinced her classmates’ parents that she was Russian). Nowadays, she prefers sitting in the director’s chair and writer’s room… but will still take any chance to show off her improv skills (and her Dame Maggie Smith voice).

Favourite Musical: Camelot | Chicago
Favourite Quote: “Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them.” - Glenda Jackson

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”

Hamish Lloyd

Diploma in Acting

Hamish loves the ocean. He finds the sea the best place to relax and connect with nature. He also likes to read, socialise with friends and dance away the hours cooking in the kitchen. There’s nothing like a good kitchen dance.

Favourite Musical: Chicago Sunday in the Park with George | A Little Night Music | The Colour Purple
Favourite Quote: "Believe you can and you’re halfway there!" Theodore Roosevelt.

Maite Dechering

Maite once wore a tiara professionally as a princess party performer and honestly, nothing’s been the same since. A drama lover through and through, she’s a Mamma Mia devotee who lives by the words may the rest of our lives be the best of our lives!” Chaos tends to follow—she doesn’t mind.

Favourite Musical: Mamma Mia
Favourite Quote: "May the rest of our lives be the best of our lives."