New Faces Grace the ‘Ulalena Stage, including a former Broadway Star!

Broadway performer, Tahitian dancer join ‘Ulalena

Maui Theatre’s ‘Ulalena show, recently welcomed two, new, cast members into the fold.

Chloe Stewart grew up on Oahu, where she attended Castle High School.  After graduating, she left Hawai’i to perform in a First National tour of the, Tony winning, production: Miss Saigon.  She moved to New York, shortly thereafter, and worked on the Broadway version of the show.

As an original cast member of four First National tour shows, she performed roles such as “Marguerite,” in The Scarlet Pimpernel and “Tuptim” in a Broadway revival production of The King and I.

Stewart toured as a featured singer in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music of the Night and has performed across the United States and Europe.  She has appeared on TV, several times, and worked with directors such as Nicholas Hytner (Artisitic Director of London’s National Theatre), Acadamy Award-winning director, Eric Simonson, of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Scott Ellis of Roundabout Theatre.

She studied acting in New York and Los Angeles, with a bevy of renowned instructors, but most recently, Stewart has been teaching acting at the prestigious Orange County High School of the Arts; an experience she found “incredibly rewarding and inspiring.”

“Right now there is nowhere in the world I would rather be than back home in Hawai’i.  I’m grateful to be part of ‘Ulalena and I feel honored to be performing with each and every member of this cast and crew.”

Born in Tahiti, Tereva Fontaine grew up in a family of dancers.  Her mother, Muriel, was a backdrop dancer in the famous Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando.  Her sister, Heira’i, is a three-time winner of the Heiva I Tahiti solo competition.

Tereva started dancing Tahitian at the age of thirteen in the Conservatory of Tahiti.  She started as a jazz and modern dancer but migrated to Tahitian dance under the influence of her sister.

At fourteen, she started performing with Les Grands Ballets de Tahiti: the prestigious, contemporary, Polynesian dance group.  She, quickly, became the “pride and joy” of Les Grands Ballets, where she was nicknamed “The Washing Machine” for her amazing ability to mimic its motion.

At the age of eighteen, she took third place in the solo competition at the Heiva I Tahiti.  Shortly after, she moved to Maui and fell in love with the island and its people.  She has lived there, ever since.