Rate My Professor Hilary Halba

As a professional actor and theatre director, Halba is a founding member of the southern bicultural theatre collective Kilimogo Productions and Dunedin-based Wow! Productions Trust. She has directed works for Kilimogo Productions, appeared in over 25 professional theatre productions across New Zealand, and toured Europe in 2010 with Quartett Theatre Company as director of Gary Henderson's Skin Tight and actor in Mo and Jess Kill Susie. Notable acting roles include Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, Samuel Beckett's Play, April de Angelis's Jumpy at Fortune Theatre, Stuart Hoar's Backwards in High Heels at Circa Theatre, and Paul Baker's Winston's Birthday at Court Theatre. She received the Best Female Performer award at the 2012 Dunedin Theatre Awards for Play and was named Dunedin's best actor of 2003 by the NZ Listener for Three Days of Rain. Key publications include co-editor (with David O'Donnell) of Acting in Aotearoa (2025); 'Play, but don't play games!: The Meisner Technique Reconsidered' (Theatre Topics, 2012); 'Performing identity: Teaching bicultural theatre in Aotearoa' (Australasian Drama Studies, 2010); 'Poetry, Politics, the Past and the Present: Interweaving Maori Postcolonial Theatre with Brecht...' (Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 2015); 'Theatre as an Artistic Intervention in Post-Trauma Situations: Hush...' (2014); and 'Let me feel the magic' in Performing Aotearoa (2007). Her scholarship has garnered 73 citations on Google Scholar.