Hilary Halba
Hilary May Halba is a New Zealand actor, theatre director and academic. She is the head of the performing arts programme at the University of Otago.
Biography
Halba was born in Milton and attended Tokomairiro High School before studying at the University of Otago.Halba studied acting and the teaching of acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse [School of the Theatre|Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater] in New York City, and is an accredited teacher of the Meisner Technique. She was a founding member of theatre collectives Kilimogo Productions and Wow! Productions Trust.
In 2010 she collaborated with Stuart Young to research and create a verbatim theatre production telling stories of domestic violence.
In 2025, she co-edited the book Acting in Aotearoa with David O'Donnell.