Teaching Artist // Professor // Acting Coach // Director
Hunter is a teaching artist, professor, acting coach, actress, and stage director.
She currently lives in Connecticut, where she works as an adjunct professor and teaches theatre and public speaking. Previously, she was the Associate for Adult Programs and a Resident Teaching Artist at Hartford Stage. While there, she enjoyed teaching students of all ages in schools across Connecticut as well as at the Tony Award-winning theatre. She also ran the Adult Acting Studio at Hartford Stage and enjoyed helping her grown-up students achieve their performance goals through classes, shows, and private coaching.
Hunter has more than a decade of experience designing and conducting theatre workshops and classes to college, secondary, and elementary students through a number of schools and organizations on the east coast. She was hired by SPARC (School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community) to serve as their Director of Education and Training, where she strengthened and expanded their programs for students ages 3-18. Her teaching certification in Theatre Arts (k-12) was granted in her home state of Virginia, where she previously served as an award-winning high school theatre teacher and director for five years. She is the proud recipient of several teaching and directing awards, the Robert Porterfield Graduate Award from the Southeastern Theatre Conference, a two-year graduate assistantship in Interdisciplinary Arts Research with Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) at the University of Georgia, and several research grants to fund special projects and collaborations. She has worked on a variety of interdisciplinary, community-based outreach projects that utilize theatre as a tool for dialogue, problem-solving, and positive change. Most recently, she co-founded and facilitated Positive Development 4 Girls, a project that utilizes drama tools to empower and educate young girls in a remote part of Tanzania, where she and her colleague are now actively starting a secondary boarding school for girls: Tumaini Jipya (New Hope for Girls).
Hunter began her career on the stage in high school and went on to study acting in college. She has worked professionally as an actress, producer, director, road manager, stage manager, company manager, and teaching artist throughout the southeast, Connecticut and New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts (Dramatic Media, directing emphasis) from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA), where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management.
When not immersed in the wonderful world of theatre, you may find her in a zumba class, at the beach, reading a good book, drinking coffee, at a concert, on a road trip, or exploring a new hobby, such as golf. She's more than likely talking to strangers and making new friends; or hanging out with some of the wonderful people and animals she has in her life.
She currently lives in Connecticut, where she works as an adjunct professor and teaches theatre and public speaking. Previously, she was the Associate for Adult Programs and a Resident Teaching Artist at Hartford Stage. While there, she enjoyed teaching students of all ages in schools across Connecticut as well as at the Tony Award-winning theatre. She also ran the Adult Acting Studio at Hartford Stage and enjoyed helping her grown-up students achieve their performance goals through classes, shows, and private coaching.
Hunter has more than a decade of experience designing and conducting theatre workshops and classes to college, secondary, and elementary students through a number of schools and organizations on the east coast. She was hired by SPARC (School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community) to serve as their Director of Education and Training, where she strengthened and expanded their programs for students ages 3-18. Her teaching certification in Theatre Arts (k-12) was granted in her home state of Virginia, where she previously served as an award-winning high school theatre teacher and director for five years. She is the proud recipient of several teaching and directing awards, the Robert Porterfield Graduate Award from the Southeastern Theatre Conference, a two-year graduate assistantship in Interdisciplinary Arts Research with Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) at the University of Georgia, and several research grants to fund special projects and collaborations. She has worked on a variety of interdisciplinary, community-based outreach projects that utilize theatre as a tool for dialogue, problem-solving, and positive change. Most recently, she co-founded and facilitated Positive Development 4 Girls, a project that utilizes drama tools to empower and educate young girls in a remote part of Tanzania, where she and her colleague are now actively starting a secondary boarding school for girls: Tumaini Jipya (New Hope for Girls).
Hunter began her career on the stage in high school and went on to study acting in college. She has worked professionally as an actress, producer, director, road manager, stage manager, company manager, and teaching artist throughout the southeast, Connecticut and New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts (Dramatic Media, directing emphasis) from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA), where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management.
When not immersed in the wonderful world of theatre, you may find her in a zumba class, at the beach, reading a good book, drinking coffee, at a concert, on a road trip, or exploring a new hobby, such as golf. She's more than likely talking to strangers and making new friends; or hanging out with some of the wonderful people and animals she has in her life.