Educator // Director // Actress
Hunter is proud to be a theatre educator, director, actress, acting coach, and arts leader.
She currently lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches acting to students at Hall High School and serves as the director of their robust theatre program. She maintains an active schedule as a director, actress, and teaching artist in the area. Previously, she worked in the nonprofit sector, as the Associate for Adult Programs 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 now serves on the board for the Connecticut Thespians.
She has nearly two decades of experience designing and conducting theatre workshops and teaching acting classes to college, secondary, and elementary students through a number of schools and organizations on the east coast. Hunter 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. In 2009, she facilitated Positive Development 4 Girls, a project that utilized drama tools to empower and educate young girls in a remote part of Tanzania; after more than a decade of positive change in the same remote community, she partnered with a colleague and local friends to build a secondary boarding school for girls. Hunter is the co-founder of Tumaini Jipya (New Hope for Girls School) on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania.
Hunter began her career on the stage in high school and went on to study acting in college. She has worked professionally in nearly every facet of theatre throughout the southeast, Connecticut and New York. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre 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 walking her dog, gardening, drinking coffee, at a concert, on a road trip, or exploring a new hobby. 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 West Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches acting to students at Hall High School and serves as the director of their robust theatre program. She maintains an active schedule as a director, actress, and teaching artist in the area. Previously, she worked in the nonprofit sector, as the Associate for Adult Programs 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 now serves on the board for the Connecticut Thespians.
She has nearly two decades of experience designing and conducting theatre workshops and teaching acting classes to college, secondary, and elementary students through a number of schools and organizations on the east coast. Hunter 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. In 2009, she facilitated Positive Development 4 Girls, a project that utilized drama tools to empower and educate young girls in a remote part of Tanzania; after more than a decade of positive change in the same remote community, she partnered with a colleague and local friends to build a secondary boarding school for girls. Hunter is the co-founder of Tumaini Jipya (New Hope for Girls School) on Ukerewe Island, Tanzania.
Hunter began her career on the stage in high school and went on to study acting in college. She has worked professionally in nearly every facet of theatre throughout the southeast, Connecticut and New York. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre 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 walking her dog, gardening, drinking coffee, at a concert, on a road trip, or exploring a new hobby. 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.