Albie is a 13 year old Christ's College student.

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He attended Cathedral Grammar School for four years as a chorister where he learnt musical theory and singing and enjoyed the hard work choristers put into singing 18+ hours a week.  The choir toured Australia and Japan in 2018 singing in a variety of venues including universities, churches and cathedrals.  He took part in the RSCM event “Sydney Inspires” in 2019, a residential summer school culminating in a large concert at the Sydney Town Hall.  He was the winner of the “Most Promising Unbroken Voice” cup at the RSCM NZ choir school in Wellington 2020.

Albie's love of acting and dancing began early when he started ballet at 4 years of age, rising to Intermediate Foundation last year.  In Year 4 at primary school he took the lead role in a production of History Rocks with Broomfield School.  He sang in the children’s choir for NZ Opera in the 2018 production of Tosca in Christchurch.

Now on a performing arts scholarship at Christ’s College, Albie plays bass guitar and sings lead vocals in the band Unknown.  Prior to that he was lead singer and bass guitarist in The G4s who won heat awards two years in a row at Rockshop Bandquest.  His vocals were recorded on vinyl for the band Glass Vaults, and he acted in a music video for Christchurch band Rhomboid.  This is Albie's first full length stage musical.

Katya Atlas is in Year 7 at Beckenham Te Kura o Puroto, and has amassed a lot of performance experience over the last few years.  As a student at Impact Dance and Stage School she has regularly performed in their showcases, has reached Introduction Level Five in Jazz Dance (Highly Commended), and achieved Honours Distinction in her Grade 1 Tap Dance exam.  She is a keen musical theatre performer, and studies singing and acting at the new Greenstone Performance Academy.

Katya has performed as an ensemble member in Seussical the Musical, in the Christmas Recital at the Isaac Theatre Royal, and in Kidsfest concerts at the Aurora Centre for the last seven years, all with Impact.  She was an Ensemble Member and Soloist with Showbiz Christchurch in their Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber concert with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra at the Isaac Theatre Royal, and played Chip the Teacup for Burnside High School’s 2017 production of Beauty and the Beast.

Katya is also an auditioned member of the Christchurch Girls' Choir, and will be singing with the choir and the CSO in their September performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.  She is very excited to be making her debut with Enchanting Productions in their performances of The Secret Garden.

Madeline has had a rich career as an international opera singer, writer, director and producer.  She has created numerous devised performances including Instrumental Storytellers at Symphony Space in Manhattan in collaboration with Concert Artists Guild, the annual Creative Stage Spectacular performances, also at Symphony Space (2018, 2019, 2020), Creative Stage Uptown at the Alvin Ailey Room at the Harry Belafonte Branch of the NYPL; and Dancing Storytellers for Carnegie Hall Fall Family Day (2018).  She specialises in devising original work with multi-generational, multidisciplinary groups.

As a performer, Madeline has worked with notable opera directors such Sir Peter Hall, Robert Wilson, David McVicar, Paul Curran, and Sir Jonathan Miller.  Career highlights include performances as Euridice in Orphee et Euridice (Le Theatre du Chatelet, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting), Helene in A Midsummer Night's Dream(La Monnaie, Brussels, Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Konstanza in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Baden Baden, Aix en Provence), Violetta in La Traviata(Santa Fe Opera), Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic), and Handel's Messiah (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with Sir Andrew Davis conducting).

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Also a passionate performing arts educator, Madeline founded Creative Stage in 2012.  Her innovative arts curricula in the fields music, theatre, dance, and filmmaking serve hundreds of students each year and are taught across Manhattan in esteemed private and public schools, alike.

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Madeline, along with partner Timothy Long, is the Founder and Director of Voices of Hope- an annual opera gala event which has raised over $250,000 to provide life-changing education to severely underprivileged children around the globe.  This gala has hosted esteemed international artists such as:  Anna Christy, Erin Morley, Meagan Miller, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Gordon Geitz, John Belemer, Bryan Register, Jonathan Boyd, Christopher Herbert, and Paul Whelan to name just a few.

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Madeline received her Masters degree from the Manhattan School of Music.  She usually lives in NYC with her husband, operatic bass Paul Whelan, and their twelve-year-old son, Zachary.