Review
Excerpt
Peter and the Wolf (2009) "Michael Hurst certainly relished his role as narrator, so much so it felt as though he was consciously restraining himself from prowling about the stage acting out each part. . . . it would have been nice to see the orchestra . . . perform with some of Hurst's sense of fun ". (Metro)
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2022 |
Guest, Hollywood Experience podcast (February 2022; listen here, from 9 min)
Judge, Showquest OnScreen short film competition (January) |
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2021 |
Guest tutor, Tim Bray Theatre Company's Performance Drama Class (11 & 18 March) |
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2020 |
Interviewee, The Estradiol Illusions Podcast (24 September; listen here).
Interviewee, The Reading Room (12 September; watch here). |
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2019 |
Director and performer (playing Hempelman, Captain Lavaud, and Queen Victoria) in The Landing, Akaroa French Fest (12 October)
Tutor on Shakespeare for The Actors' Program (3-14 June) |
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2018 |
Guest performer, "Club Mystique III" fundraiser for New Zealand Dance Company (11 November)
Interviewee, Jassy Dean Trust Fundraising Dinner (15 September)
Performer, "Here Comes the Sun", Cafe One2One (24 July)
Guest speaker, "Rehearsing and Performing An Iliad in Dunedin", at GAPS ARTS (20 May) |
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2017 |
Creator, director, and guest performer, "Club Mystique II" fundraiser for New Zealand Dance Company (4 December)
Inteviewee and guest performer, Garnet Station 10th Birthday Variety Show, Tiny Theatre (17 November)
Director and performer (playing Hempelman, Captain Lavaud, and Queen Victoria) in The Landing, Akaroa French Fest (7 October)
Performer in Dean Parker's Bloomsday, The Thirsty Dog (16 June)
Guest speaker for The Actors' Program (7 June)
Speaker, Massey University, "Classics on Stage and Screen: A conversation with actor, director and playwright Michael Hurst" (4 April)
Guest performer at "Actors' Benevolent Fund Afternoon Gala" (2 April) |
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2016 |
Creator, director, and guest performer, "Club Mystique" fundraiser for New Zealand Dance Company (1 December)
Guest performer at "The Republic of Waiheke Royal Command Performance", Rocky Bay Hall (26 November)
Guest speaker, "Hurst All About Hamlet", at GAPS ARTS (30 October)
Guest performer at Dragons: Cabtastical, The Basement (1 October)
Interviewee, RadioNZ, talking about his training at Theatre Corporate (23 June; click here to listen online)
Performer in Dean Parker's Bloomsday, The Thirsty Dog (16 June)
Speaker, "Shakespeare – His Relevancy & Power", Circa Theatre (1 May) |
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2015 |
Voice of Emperor Izaro in Path of Exile (video game)
Guest performer (poetry recitation and Drunk Irish Priest) at Tiny Theatre (2 September)
Inteviewee, Verity George Variety Show, Tiny Theatre, Garnet Station (14 August)
Tutor on Homer for The Actors' Program (10-13 August)
Panelist for NZ Actors' Equity Green Room: Sex & Nudity on Stage and Screen: What is Right and How to Empower Yourself (31 May)
Wifrid Noyce in Nepal Memories fundraiser for Himalayan Trust's Rebuild Appeal (reading; 17 May)
In conversation with Alan Cumming, Auckland Writers' Festival (15 May)
Celebrity
guest, Oz Comic-Con, Adelaide, South Australia (18-19 April)
Video of the Hercules panel is available for download here.
Celebrity
guest, Oz Comic-Con, Perth, Western Australia (11-12 April)
Video of the Hercules panel is available for download here.
Celebrity
guest, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Burbank, California (21 February) |
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2014 |
Portraying NZ Prime Minister John Key in a series of short interviews in the lead-up to the 2014 election (September):
Guest performer, Seating You fundraiser for Circa Theatre (31 August)
Performer in Dean Parker's Bloomsday, The Thirsty Dog (16 June)
Guest artist, Rose Charities Fundraiser, Morra Hall, Waiheke (24 May)
Host, Art of Fashion Gala at Erupt! Lake Taupo Festival (9 May)
Poetry
reciter, Auckland Central City Library event Swept Away by the Romantics (30 April)
Guest speaker, Creative Mornings/Auckland (11 April; watch online)
Celebrity
guest, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Burbank, California (8 February) |
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2013 |
Host, Silo Theatre 2014 Season Launch (20 November)
Reader, Charlotte Grimshaw's The Night Book for Radio NZ (November).
Guest artist, NZ Labour Party Spring Dinner and Auction (21 September)
Guest speaker, Auckland Executive Club Meeting at Parnell on the Roses (17 July)
Tutor on Shakespeare for The Actors' Program (1-11 July)
Panelist, Open Dialogue discussion on "Making It Up, Fucking It Up, and Everything in Between," Q Theatre/Loft (10 July)
Guest speaker, The Director's Story, part of Media Studies Stories, presented by Screen Directors' Guild of New Zealand at Raye Freedman Centre (10 July)
Panelist for NZ Actors' Equity Green Room: How to Do Your Best Audition (30 May)
Guest tutor on Othello, Rutherford College (25 June)
Performer in Dean Parker's Bloomsday, The Thirsty Dog (16 June)
First reader of Ulysses for the James Joyce Centre's inaugural Global Bloomsday Gathering (16 June)
In conversation with SCGNZ Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival students at Downstage Theatre (31 May)
Celebrity guest, "Up Close with Michael Hurst" fundraiser for Downstage Theatre (26 May)
Panelist for NZ Actors' Equity Green Room: "How to Make Money from Your Own Productions" (12 May)
Judge for Auckland North Regional competition of SCGNZ Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival (12-13 April)
Facilitator for King Lear director Lisa Harrow's lecture "Working on Lear," AUSA Summer Shakespeare (4 March)
Speaker, Review Revue With Pride, Auckland Library (27 February)
Storyteller, Summer Noelle, Radio New Zealand National (for True Stories Told Live; 18 January)
Interviewee, Summer Noelle, Radio New Zealand National (on Songs I Could Listen to Again and Again; 11 January) |
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2012 |
Performer and celebrity auctioneer, Anthea Freya Hill's fundraiser to attend The Actors' Program, TAPAC (29 November 2012)
Celebrity
debater, Moneyweek Debate, Ostend Markets, Waiheke (moot: "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue"; 8 September)
Speaker at Actors' Equity Graduate Day (18 August)
Tutor on Shakespeare for The Actors' Program (6-16 August)
Tutor for Twelfth Night workshop, Rutherford College (27 March)
Interviewer, Art Talk at NZ International Arts Festival (interviewing Beautiful Burnout creative team, 8 March)
Interviewee, Sunday Morning, Radio New Zealand National (on Frequently Asked Questions; 19 February)
Guest performer with Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
Q Theatre (15 February)
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Burbank, California (27-29 January)
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2011 |
Story teller at True Stories Out Loud, Basement Fest (15 October)
Guest lecturer on Macbeth, University of Auckland (13 October)
Speaker for 'Sundays at Four' speaker series at Victoria Picture Palace and Theatre (Devonport): "Remarks on Theatre: A Personal View" (4 September)
Panelist, Open Dialogue discussion on "The Art of Adaptation", Blues Bar, The Edge (30 August)
Tutor for As You Like It workshop, Howick Little Theatre
Unofficial judge (with book club) of NZ Book Awards for Listener in article "A Book Club Decides"
Celebrity
guest, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Los Angeles, California
Tutor for Auckland Theatre Company Summer School (13 January) |
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2010 |
Award presenter and interviewer at NZ Arts Foundation New Generation Award ceremony for recipients Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, directors of The Six Dollar Fifty Man (14 December)
Guest speaker (on absurdism), Western Springs College (19 November)
Guest speaker (on Othello), year 13 students, Western Springs College (11 November)
Guest presenter, Walters Prize tour, Auckland Art Gallery (26 September)
Story teller at True Stories Told Live, NZ Book Council (5 September)
Seeded interview on bNet (31 July; listen here)
Documentary narration, Hidden Apartheid; director: Mandrika Rupa
Guest speaker (on Othello), year 13 students, Western Springs College (23 April)
Guest speaker (on Shakespeare), Ponsonby Probus Club (20 April) |
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2009 |
Guest performer, Sexy Recession Cabaret, TAPAC (13, 14, 18 December)
Guest
speaker, Pt. Chevalier Probus Club (13 December)
Guest
commentator on The Panel,
Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May, 11 September, 16 November)
Actor, Silo Theatre 2010 Season Launch, ASB Theatre (11 November)
Celebrity reader at the launch of Jill Marshall's books Doghead and Kave Tina Rox at Auckland War Memorial Museum (1 November)
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National (September)
Celebrity presenter, Qantas Film and Television Awards 2009 (6 September)
Guest performer, Epsom Girls Grammar School Gala Auction (21 August)
Celebrity reader, Reading with the Stars, Celebrity Storytime, Epsom Community Library (25 July)
Host and guest artist, Sassy Songs and Sexy Shakespeare (benefit for Globe fellow Sylvia Rands), The Basement (19 July)
Guest
commentator on The Panel,
Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May, September, 16 November)
Discussant on "Appointment" on Radio New Zealand Concert (on Shakespeare's sonnets; 29 April)
Reader for Shakespeare's Birthday celebration, Auckland City Library
Reader of short story "Parallel Universe" from the Charlotte Grimshaw collection Opportunity, Radio New Zealand National
Celebrity
guest, Armageddon Expo, Wellington
Celebrity
guest, Armageddon Expo, Christchurch
Interviewer of
actors Melissa Madden Grey and Susan Prior, stars of Venus and Adonis, for AK09's "In Conversation" program
Narrator of Peter and the Wolf for New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, AK09
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Los Angeles, California
Book review, Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters, published in New Zealand Herald (19 January) |
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2008 |
Guest
reviewer of Steven Berkoff's One Man, on The
Arts on Sunday, Radio New Zealand National (19 October)
Narrator of documentary film The New Dance Group; Shirley Horrocks, director
Cabaret performer (with Jennifer Ward-Lealand) in "A Night in Berlin," to benefit Waiheke Art Gallery (25 July)
Guest speaker at conference Navigating the Textual Sea, New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English (10 July)
Host, New Zealand Institute of Architects 2008 Awards for Architecture Gala Dinner (24 May)
Guest
reviewer of One Man Star Wars Trilogy, The
Arts on Sunday, Radio New Zealand National (11 May)
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Grand Slam convention,
Burbank, California
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National (6 March, 8 May)
Guest performer, Celebrity Talent Quest, Silo Theatre (11 January)
Guest tutor for masterclass, Centre City Music Theatre 2008 Summer School (8 January) |
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2007 |
Celebrity
guest, "Eight Months to Mars", Afternoons,
Radio New Zealand National (26 November)
Workshop
in conjunction with exhibition "Making
Worlds",
Auckland Art Gallery
Celebrity
guest for Celebrity Times of Their Life presented
by the Con Artists improv group
Celebrity
debater, The Great Project K Celebrity Debate
2007, in Auckland and Wellington (moot: "That
We Need More Women on Top")
Guest
speaker, Aorangi Club; "Remarks on Theatre"
Guest
reviewer of Roger Hall's Who Wants to be 100, Radio New Zealand National (10 June)
Interviewed
composer, producer, creator of Music-Theatre
Heiner Goebbels for AK07's AK
in Conversation series
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist in "An Evening
with Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand", Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Burbank, California |
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2006 |
Reciter
Mozart's letters in Boy Wonder with
Viva Voce Chamber Choir
Hosted
Q Theatre brand launch event (watch excerpt here)
Performed
in Oxford
and Chambers on Wine,
Walker & Hall
Waiheke Art Award Members Gala Preview Event,
Waiheke Art Gallery
Speaker at University of Auckland Blues Awards dinner (29 September)
Lecturer,
"Inventing Shakespeare," University of
Auckland Faculty of Arts Shakespeare in Winter
lecture series
Speaker,
"Celebrating Twelfth Night" symposium, University
of Auckland English Department
Poetry
reciter, The Depot Artspace, Devonport
Auctioneer
for fundraiser to help send My
Brother and I are Porn Stars to Edinburgh
Fringe Festival
Guest artist,
Auckland On-Stage Exhibition Launch Programme,
Auckland City Libraries
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl's Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That
We've Lost the Plot")
Guest
commentator on The Panel, Radio New Zealand National
(15
May,
26
June, 27 November)
Interviewer,
Directing Your First Feature: An Evening with Chris
Graham, Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand (17 May)
Presented
"Remarks Concerning Theatre" to Probis and
U3A groups
Co-host,
Schwarzkopf Professional Awards Gala
MC
for Margaret Mahy's 70th Birthday Gala Dinner
Performer,
"Four Dramatic Poems with Improvised Music", Cafe One2One
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation Entertainment
Xena convention, Burbank, California |
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2005 |
Created
and performed a performance piece for the launch
event of the New Theatre Initiative
Poetry
recitation, The
Poem and the Partsong
with Viva Voce Chamber Choir
Guest
reviewer Moana and the Tribe, Radio New Zealand National (9 August)
Poetry
recitation, Auckland Art Gallery, In Response
to "A Tale to Tell: Victorian Narrative
Painting"
Guest
reviewer of J Borgeson, A Long, and D Singer's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Radio New Zealand National (12 May)
Guest
reviewer of Something Dark, Radio New Zealand National (6 April)
Performer,
AK05 Opening Celebration
MC
for Thrive Waikato
Speaker
at Screen Canterbury AGM |
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2004 |
MC
(as The Widow Twanky) for AK05 kick-off
Guest
artist, Christmas
in the Park
Guest
artist, Love Matiatia Concert
Book review, Gielgud's Letters, published in Sunday
Star-Times
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s
Grammar School Celebrity Debate (moot: "That
She’ll
be Right") |
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2003 |
Recitation
of Kubla Kahn for the Ellerslie Flower Show (26-30 November)
Guest
reviewer of Ladies Night, Radio New Zealand National (11 November)
Taught
Kids Workshop for the Auckland Art Gallery
Poetry
recitation
of E.E. Cummings Epithalamion with musical
accompaniment at Soundscapes
event (26 October)
Celebrity
guest, cabaret guest artist, and recipient of
Award for Best Guest Appearance, Cult TV Festival,
Weston-Super-Mare, UK (9-11 October)
MC
for the opening of the exhibition Suspended:
Six Glass Artists (30 September)
Read
excerpts from Pam Gem's play Stanley, based on a book of letters of British artist Stanley
Spencer. At Auckland Art Gallery (10 August)
MC
for Waitemata District Health Board Clinical
Achievement Awards (8 August)
Read
excerpts from Ulysses at
the Atomic Cafe on Bloomsday (16 June)
Celebrity
guest, Best of Both Worlds convention, Canberra,
Australia (19-20 April)
Guest
reviewer of Amadeus, Radio New Zealand National (3 March)
Guest
reviewer of Blasted, Radio New Zealand National (27 February)
Panelist,
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival (17 May)
MC
for New Zealand Leadership Forum dinner |
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2002 |
Celebrity
guest and performer in Love Letters, Creation
Entertainment Xena convention, Pasadena, California
Celebrity
debater, Great
Western Springs College Celebrity Debate (moot: "That
Television is the Best Teacher")
Celebrity
debater, 11th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation/Massey
University (moot: "That
Politics is the Most Honourable Profession")
Participant on Sunday Morning, Radio New Zealand National (24 March) |
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2001 |
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Cult TV Festival,
Liverpool, UK
Guest lecturer, Massey University Celebration of Shakespeare (title: "Performing Shakespeare"
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention,
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Celebrity
debater, 10th Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore
Libraries Foundation (moot: "That We Are the
Champions")
Celebrity
guest and sole performer in cabaret "Night Music in Valley Forge," Creation
Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania |
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2000 |
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That Life's Too Short for Trivial
Pursuits ")
Host,
Axis Awards Show
Celebrity
guest and cabaret guest artist, Creation Entertainment
Hercules and
Xena convention, Pasadena, California
Celebrity
debater, 9th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
We Have Reached ‘The End of the
Golden Weather") |
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1999 |
Celebrity
debater, Epsom Girl’s Grammar School Celebrity
Debate (moot: "That Style is More Important
Than Sincerity")
Guest
artist, Starlight Symphony
Celebrity
debater, The Warhol Celebrity Debate, Auckland
Art Gallery (moot: "That the Warhol 15 Minutes
is Long Enough!")
Celebrity
debater, 8th Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore
Libraries Foundation (moot: "That
It is Better to Marry Than to Burn") |
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1998 |
Celebrity
debater, 7th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
You Can Judge a Book by its Cover")
Celebrity
guest, Construction-The 1998 National New
Zealand Science Fiction Convention, Wellington,
New Zealand |
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1997 |
Celebrity
guest, Creation Entertainment Hercules and Xena convention, San Francisco,
California (18 October)
Celebrity
debater, 6th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
You Can’t Have It Both Ways") |
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1996 |
Guest
artist, Christmas in the Park
Celebrity
debater, 5th
Great Celebrity Debate, North Shore Libraries Foundation
(moot: "That
Where Ignorance is Bliss, ‘tis Folly
to be Wise") |
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1991 |
Reader, Accidents (short story by John Cranna), Radio New Zealand |
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1984 |
Damien (voice) in The Devil and the Corner Grocer (short story by Margaret Mahy), Radio New Zealand |
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1981 |
Actor in music video for Blam Blam Blam's Don't Fight it Marsha, It's Bigger than Both of Us (watch it here) |
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