COMMON GROUND
Hester is the founder & host of COMMON GROUND spoken word sessions / kā tūka toikupu. Recent sessions:
Hester Ullyart is an award winning UK born multidisciplinary artist.
She works in writing and stage performance across theatre, poetry, music and film.
She is currently based in Aotearoa NZ. She is the founder and host of Common Ground Spoken Word Sessions, a monthly event in Lyttelton / Ōhinehou.
Hester is currently working on a recorded album of original songs, THE ALL CLEAR - the live and recorded work is developed in creation with Ōtautahi musicians Reuben Derrick, Hannah Everingham and Thomas Isbister, produced by Ryan Fisherman.
COMING UP JULY / AUGUST
ANDI CROWN PHOTOGRAPHY, 2024
RECENT PAST EVENTS
DEBUT SHOW: THE ALL CLEAR (MUSIC) 12/05/2024
SPACE ACADEMY, ŌTAUTAHI.
SOLO GIGS
HANNAH EVERINGHAM ‘SIEMPRE TIENE FLORES’ TOUR
w. Hester Ullyart Tour Support
SATURDAY 20th APRIL - MAGGIES / ŌTEPOTI DUNEDIN
SUNDAY 21st APRIL - Grainstore Gallery / OAMARU
THEATRE
BEGGARS BANQUET (FREE THEATRE CHRISTCHURCH)
various dates Nov / Dec @ The Pump House, Ōtautahi
KING LEAR, AUCKLAND THEATRE COMPANY JUNE/JULY 2023
https://www.atc.co.nz/auckland-theatre-company/2023/king-lear/
“Hester Ullyart as the Fool, is electric. She riffs of Hurst’s sucker of a Lear, playing the Fool as a soulful, yearning floozy – but with bite to match her bark. “ STUFF NZ
“Hester Ullyart maintains a perfect gatekeeper of otherworldly wisdom and floozie turned cabaret singer, as his admonishing sage. Also, her singing is just great..”
Theatreview NZ, 2023
‘‘King Lear’s Fool is reimagined in sequins and sunglasses, a floozy for the ages in a performance from Hester Ullyart that should not be missed by any fan of Shakespeare.’’
NZ Herald, 2023
