Ashleigh Harvey started entertaining audiences when she was eleven years old, playing Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance. That’s when the performing bug bit and she hasn’t looked back.

Having graduated from Wits University in 2004 with a BA in Dramatic Art, Ashleigh is trained and has vast experience as both an actress and a singer. She has played with the European sounds of Kurt Weill in Berlin to Broadway and has bathed in the African musicality of modern South African works such as Love, Crime and Johannesburg and Sophiatown at the Market theatre, which earned her a Naledi nomination. She also played Janet in The Rocky Horror Show and has toured extensively over the past two years in Europe, the U.K. and Africa with Truth in Translation, a South African musical drama about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which allowed her the privilege of working closely with South African music icon Hugh Masekela.

Ashleigh’s passion is performance and because of her dramatic background she enjoys taking on characters, interacting with crowds and creating an exciting and dynamic world for her audience. Whether she’s singing background music for a cocktail party, reveling in the glitz and glamour of big Broadway numbers or getting the dance floor pumping, she does it with charisma and a delicate understanding of the crowd. She has also been working with saxophonist Chris Luke over the last four years at private functions and various corporate events and this dazzling couple has provided many a party with great music and a classy sense of style.

Her acting credits range from Shakespeare to modern European and American works and original South African plays. She was a finalist in The Brett Goldin Internship for the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 2009 spent a month in London studying at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.