COMMON GROUND
Hester is the founder & host of COMMON GROUND spoken word sessions / kā tūka toikupu. Recent sessions:
ANDI CROWN PHOTOGRAPHY, 2024
Hester Ullyart is an award winning UK born multidisciplinary artist.
She works in acting, writing and performance across theatre, poetry, music and film.
She is currently based in Aotearoa NZ. She is a published poet and the founder and host of Common Ground Spoken Word Sessions, a monthly event in Lyttelton / Ōhinehou.
Hester is currently working on an album of original songs, THE ALL CLEAR - the live and recorded work is currently in development.
For acting and voice enquiries please contact Karen Kay Management kk@actors.co.nz
INCOMING EVENT COMMON GROUND KĀ TŪKA TOIKUPU #18 FEAT. RAY SHIPLEY, JENNA HELLER, ANKE RICHTER
HESTER IDA AND THE MUSIC PRESENT: THE ALL / CLEAR - TINY FEST, TŪRANGA Library, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Novemer 24, 3pm, main staircase
A DOLLS HOUSE October 9- November 12, 2024 directed by Melanie Luckman
ACTING - Hester has recently appeared onstage as KRISTINE LINDE in A DOLL’S HOUSE at The Court Theatre, Christchurch
THE DEADBEAT OPERA September 2024
Hester recently appeared as MACHEATH in FREE THEATRE Christchurch’s THE DEADBEAT OPERA, a contemporary piece of music theatre based on Bertolt Brecht’s The Beggars Opera and John Gay’s The Threpenny Opera
HESTER IDA AND THE MUSIC - various dates May-November 2024 and ongoing including @03Sessions, Roadhouse Concerts and Tiny Fest 2024. Hester’s music has been debuting in Ōtautahi Christchurch this year. For up to date events follow her on instagram at @hester_ida_music and on her facebook page /hesterullyart
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
