Bright Side Founder, Industry Professional, WAAPA grad, Primary School Teacher

Double Bachelor WAAPA graduate Amy Fortnum began her training in 2013 with a Bachelor of Music, specialising in Classical Voice. Integrating this experience with fifteen years of dance tuition at Jody Marshall Dance Company, she was accepted into WAAPA’s Music Theatre Bachelor degree, where she played leading lady Julie Jordan in Carousel. In 2020, Amy became the first female to play Weasel in Australian Shakespeare Company's 34th annual season of The Wind in the Willows. She regularly tours with the National Theatre for Children, highlighting issues such as mental health, nutrition, and sustainability through performance. In 2021, Amy understudied Liza Minnelli in The Boy From Oz with Platinum Entertainment. She also starred as leading lady Beryl Mills, the first ever Miss Australia, in the regional tour of Miss Westralia. Most recently, she joined the cast of Titanic the Musical: In Concert at the Melbourne Town Hall alongside Anthony Warlow and played Princess Beauty in Zealous Productions’ Christmas pantomime, Sleeping Beauty. 

Amy is also a producer, writer, director, and creative mentor. She recently closed a season of her original educational musical Filter Fun Park in Yagan Square, presented in partnership with Development WA, and regularly joins the troupe of Coded Comedy, which utilises AI to produce hilariously entertaining musical improvisation live on stage. Her cabaret Golden Age Girls won the 2019 Fringe World Cabaret Award and the 2018 Julie Michael Cabaret Award, with the sequel undergoing creative development with Hayes Theatre Co. 

Mentor, Emerging WA Artist

Ethan is a graduate from the Diploma of Acting course at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). He’s everybody’s favourite at our Bright Stars school holiday programs and sometimes even stars in our shows alongside our young artists. He joined Bright Side in 2024 for Filter Fun Park in Yagan Square, presented in collaboration with Development WA and Filter Your Future. A true staple of the local Perth theatre scene, Ethan’s most recent theatre credits with Drew Anthony Creative include Footloose and Saturday Night Fever at Planet Royale. Last year, Ethan joined WA Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty at His Majesty’s Theatre and toured all around WA with Perform! Education. He also worked with Humphrey Bower and Teresa Jakovich for WAYTCo.’s production of Shakespeare (a)Gender.

Guest Choreographer

Chloe is a graduate of the Elder Conservatorium’s Bachelor of Music Theatre (2023), as well as the Diploma of Music Theatre from WAAPA (2020). Born and raised in Perth WA, her career began at aged 10, credits including Annie understudy, Annie (Gordon Frost Organisation, dir. Karen Johnson-Mortimer); Jemima, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (TML Enterprises, dir. Rodger Hodgman); Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre, Spelling Bee (ECMT, dir. Joseph Simons); Connie Mackenzie, Cover Maggie Winslow, A Chorus Line (ECMT, dir. Matthew Hyde, Luke Alleva); Shelley, Cover Penny Pingleton, Hairspray (HAMA Productions, dir. Vincent Hooper); solo semi-finalist, Australia’s Got Talent (Fremantle Media); Perth Royal Show (Likeable creative); and the Australian ambassador for the inaugural Wunderkindz Convention in Argentina (Piggyback Productions).

She is super excited to be working with the Bright Side Productions team this July!