Hilary is a director, choreographer, performer and workshop leader. She trained in Canberra before winning a scholarship to further her studies at the Workshop Theatre, Leeds, UK. She has worked extensively in Australia and the UK, where she is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance at Huddersfield University Drama Department. She has performed with John Britton in Charred Vision, Diving For Pearls, The 18:12 To Tashkent (UK); Adam’s Apple, Time & Tide (all of which she also choreographed) and Fleshtones (Melbourne). She has performed in The Waltz (West Yorkshire Playhouse); New Beginnings (Yorkshire Dance Centre); Carnival Of the Animals (Monash New Orchestra) and Is AnyBody Home? (Weave Movement Theatre). She has been Artistic Director of Student Theatre at Monash University, twice Artistic Director of La Trobe University's Short Works Festival of new writing (Australia) and Artistic Director of the Bradford Women's Performance Project (UK). In 2004 she created Blueberry Fields for Quiddity Theatre and directed Eighty Games for graduating drama students at Monash University. In 2005 she directed The Dancing Dane for Huddersfield University Drama Department, worked as a visiting artist for the UK's National Student Drama Festival and spent some time training at the Grotowski Centre in Wroclaw. For many years, she has explored Improvisation as a performance form, appearing in Melbourne, Huddersfield and London. She is currently pursuing her research in this area with a number of international collaborators.