Chantelle Fava
Founder & Creative Alchemist
Chantelle artistically watches over each show created, and still performs some acts herself!
Chantelle started her career in Musical Theatre being flown to Europe to perform in Andrew Lloyd Webber's record breaking musical, Starlight Express. This is where she found her love for roller skating! Chantelle worked throughout Europe dancing on many live TV shows and touring with Saturday Night Fever.
Chantelle was honoured to be chosen as part of the original production of We Will Rock You. This gave her the chance to work directly with Writer/Director Ben Elton, Queen band member Brian May, famous choreographer Arlene Philips and musical genius Mike Dixon. This is where Chantelle really learnt from the best, finding her passion for creating powerful and exciting shows.
On returning home to her beloved Australia, Chantelle created and performed with Rolling Entertainment. The skate crew were named top 8 in Australia’s Got Talent 2010 and went on to perform at numerous corporate events, and were invited to perform on Hey Hey it’s Saturday as a featured act.
Fresh celebrates it's 15th year in 2025, throughout that time has provided feature shows and roving acts Australia wide. Chantelle proudly choreographs and creatively oversees every performance that is produced.
Most recently Chantelle created a 20 minute opening show for a crowd for 12500 people at Rod Laver Arena.
However, Chantelle’s favourite choreographic challenge to date was given to her by comedian Kitty Flanagan, opening the Oxfam Melbourne International Comedy Gala for Network 10. Her brief was a group of roller skating, disco dancing, very sad clowns. Kitty’s response to the final product, “Nailed it!”.
Benji Leeks - Entertainment Wizard
Benji started his career in America performing in a touring circus. On return to Australia he performed in the Australian Shakespeare Company’s “Much Ado Rock Musical” and “Midsummer Nights Dream”. He performed in “Go Super” a children’s circus show as well as “Trio” and “Swan Lake” for Melbourne Dance Theatre to name a few. Benji is such a diverse talent that when he first came on board with Fresh Creative Entertainment it was not for his circus, acrobatic or dance skills, but for his trick roller skating work!
In the the past 10 years he has continued to broaden his skills working as a stage manager for shows such as “Girls in Grey” for Shift theatre and “Marty Putz”, as part of Melbourne International Comedy Festival as well as Production manager for the immersive dance experience, 'Mansion'.
Benji has directed multiple works including 'Life & Death of a physical artist' and Fresh's touring production, 'Relate'.
Maddie Fox - Singer/Dancer/Casting
Maddie is a versatile dancer specialising in Jazz, Hip hop, Commercial Jazz, Tap, Latin and Ballet. With a passion for movement and expression, she began dancing at 2 and a half years old at a small dance school in Frankston, and finished her formal training at The Edge Performers school as a scholarship winning student.
Maddie’s professional experience includes performing and touring nationally and internationally with global artists such as Mya, Christina Milian, Blu Cantrell, GRL, Leo Sayer, Zoe Badwi and more. She has been featured in RnB Fridays Aus and NZ tour, Dirty Dancing Immersive and the original cast of Beats On pointe, where she showcased her versatility in dancing as well as singing.
Her other credits include featured roles in TVC’s for Bonds and Kmart.
Fresh is unbelievably lucky to have Maddie both on the stage and behind the computer. She assists Chantelle in casting shows and her trusty dance captain. Maddie has magic organisational skills, making sure all our artsists have every tiny piece of information from our clients to make sure that every job runs smooth as melted butter!
Gemma Kelly - Singer/costumes/admin
Originally from Hobart, Tasmania, Gemma moved interstate to become a Melbourne based performer, whilst also finding her love for vocal teaching and working with children along the way.
Gemma has been performing since a young age in various shows and musicals around Hobart including shows which she co-produced earlier in 2016 with Musical Theatre Crew. Gemma is also the proud owner of GEM & MEG Vocalist | Entertainers.
Her performance credits include; 'THIS IS OUR TIME' 2023 Vocal Cabaret Tour - GEM & MEG, The AFL Grand Final Footy Show Revue 2017 & 2018, AFL Preliminary Performance 'Richmond AMF Match at the MCG', White Night Melbourne, Tourism Australia Gala Dinner and much more.
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Gemma keeps Fresh running like clockwork! With hundreds of costumes to keep on top of we are lucky to have her on the gigs and behind the scenes! As with all of our team members, Gemma pops in and out of our performances, showcasing her divine vocals.
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