Artistic Director of Synergy Theatre Project which works across theatre and the criminal justice system and was established in 2000 after she won a Butler Trust Award for innovative and effective work with prisoners. Esther’s work includes work includes:The Thief (short film), Girls Like That (writers Guild winner 2014), Cape, , Holloway Jones (Brian Way Award winner 2012), Burning Bird (Unicorn Theatre and schools tour), Every Coin (Soho Theatre), Random (Tour), Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Trafalgar Studios), Den of Thieves, Glengarry Glen Ross, Fallout and Elmina’s Kitchen (HMP Brixton), The Long Road (Soho Theatre),  The Rains of Fear (short film BFI Southbank, LA and Krakow Film Festivals).  She has trained and worked at National Theatre Studio.