Ph: 0403 386 540
fairy@fairytwinkletoes.com.au
Sprinkling fairy magic throughout Melbourne!

A little bit about Melanie Michaels
(a.k.a. Fairy Twinkletoes)
 

As a full time children's entertainer, I specialise in making kids laugh!

I delight thousands of children each year with amazing magic, enchanting puppetry, big laughs and hilarious surprises - performing for children at hospitals, schools and birthday parties.

I have been working with children for over fifteen years, in positions ranging from teaching literacy skills right though to flying trapeze!

In 2008, 2009 and 2010 I had the honour of being invited to perform at the White House, Washington DC, for their annual Easter Celebrations, one of the most treasured traditions in US presidential history. To see a picture of "Twinkletoes" on the official White House website, please click here :)

This was followed by a week of shows in Hollywood at the "Magic Castle" - the most famous magic nightclub in the world!

I have also been a guest on Andrew Denton's show "Enough Rope" - please click here for a lovely photo of "Fairy Denton" and a link to a short video excerpt from the interview.

For the past three years I have attended the "KIDabra International Conference" - an annual convention in America for children's magician's and family entertainers. After each conference I return home with even more wonderful magic tricks up my sleeves - keeping my show fresh and fun with exciting new material!

Before I grew up and became a "fairy", I worked at Club Med Lindeman Island, as part of the Mini Club staff, and also taught gymnastics at
Wesley College.

I spent four wonderful seasons working on American Summer Sleepaway Camps - in Pennsylvania, New York and Wisconsin - taking care of the youngest campers, aged five and six, during their eight week overnight stay. At camp, I was also the tennis coaching specialist as well as circus specialist, teaching flying trapeze and juggling! Here in Melbourne, I have worked in many schools and after-care programs teaching juggling and other circus arts to budding little circus performers :)

I help sprinkle a little fairy magic at the Royal Children's Hospital, volunteering through "Challenge - Supporting Kids With Cancer" and the Starlight Foundation. I've also had the pleasure of granting many special wishes for sick children through the "Make a Wish Foundation".

Along with my great love of entertaining children, I am also a professional actress. Among many other theatre productions, I performed as Anne in Anne of Green Gables, at Rippon Lea gardens, and then again in Perth. I attended full time circus school in New Zealand where I studied clowning, juggling, trapeze and physical theatre.

Growing up, I was like most little girls and had an incredible fascination with fairies. My parents once told me about the "Freckle Fairy" who would come and give me a kiss every night, leaving another freckle on my nose! There is even the story of my Mum chasing after me when I started prep - telling all my new classmates that my name wasn't actually "Tinkerbell" as I had been introducing myself!

Working as a children's entertainer has been wonderful and rewarding for me.. and I plan to continue for as long as there are little girls and boys who believe in fairies!

Could there be anything more special than being thanked each day for making a child's dreams come true?

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