Eszter Balint

Eszter Balint is a singer-songwriter actor and violinist. She has released four albums, and has contributed vocals and/or violin to works by Michael Gira and Swans, John Lurie. Marc Ribot, and Tammy Faye Starlight. Eszter grew up as a child member of the avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre. She has appeared in starring and featured roles in films by Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, Louis CK, and alongside David Bowie. She is currently developing a theatrical show, I Hate Memory!, featuring songs co-written by Stew (of Stew & The Negro Problem and the Tony Award winning show Passing Strange. (Photo by Eric Schneider.)

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Wake Up. The Century Has Moved On.

By Eszter Balint | February 21, 2024

Wake Up. The Century Has Moved On.

From the Talkhouse Reader, Eszter Balint on New York City, circa 1983-87, an adapted excerpt from her one-person show I Hate Memory!.

Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

By Eszter Balint | August 24, 2015

Actress and Songwriter Eszter Balint (Stranger Than Paradise) Talks Hubert Sauper’s We Come as Friends

A downtown NYC-based actress-singer-songwriter type is bowled over by this very human portrait of contemporary postcolonial Africa.