Esther van Zyl of Neem’s Themes

The Total Tutor Neil Haley and Peter Elvidge will interview Esther van Zyl of Neem’s Themes.

She is an actress/producer-director free-lancing in the States, mostly New York. She moved over from South Africa January 2015 on a scholarship to study Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy, and she is now pursuing acting as a full-time career. 

Back in SA (She comes from the suburbs just outside Cape Town) She had been involved in theatre since I was 5. She did a Bachelors in Drama at Stellenbosch University and moved to New York 2 months after graduation. 

She is currently involved in theatre and film projects. On the theatre side, I have done a couple of concert readings at the famous Player’s Club on Gramercy Park, was a semi-finalist in the Manhattan Monologue Slam, and have performed with my theatre company, BrickaBrack in original productions created by our ensemble cast. In film, I have starred in a number of short films, 2 of which are currently in post-production for the 2017 festival circuit, and I am shooting another one in LA in September. I appear in a now-viral web series with Jordan called “Neem’s Themes”. I also work with a film production company called KaleidoCircle Productions that I helped establish and kick off with my graduating class at NYFA. We are also producing a web series about the quirks of real estate and apartment-life in New York, and a short film inspired by the East Village Explosion of last year. Lastly I am in the main cast of the new TV Show Make It,  headed by Jordan Gelber and hosted by Bonnie Bruderer that will be broadcast on a number of platforms very soon, following the lives of actresses and creatives "making it" in New York.