ABOUT
Hunter Foster is an award winning Director, Actor, and Writer. His most recent directing credits include A Little Night Music starring Kathleen Turner and Little Shop Of Horrors starring Latrice Royale - both at the Ogunquit Playhouse.
He adapted, co-wrote and originally directed the play, Clue: On stage which has become one of the most produced plays in the U.S. In 2018, he directed The Other Josh Cohen off-Broadway at the West Side Theatre in NYC, and was named “Director of the Year” by the Wall Street Journal for his productions of 42nd Street at the Bucks County Playhouse, and The Drowsy Chaperone at the Goodspeed Opera House.
He is an Artistic Associate at the Bucks County Playhouse where he has directed The Bridges of Madison County starring Kate Baldwin and The Rocky Horror Show starring Frankie Grande, Grease, Noises Off, White Christmas, Clue, 42nd Street, Guys & Dolls, Company, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Buddy Holly Story, National Pastime, Summer of ’42, Million Dollar Quartet, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Other directing credits include: A Christmas Story, A Connecticut Christmas Carol (Goodspeed); Million Dollar Quartet (Paper Mill); Once, Cabaret, My Fair Lady, The Foreigner, Clue, Million Dollar Quartet (Cape Playhouse); Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, The Crossword Play, Our Town, Guys & Dolls, Give Em Hell Harry (Theatre Aspen); Clue (Utah Shakespeare theatre); Rent, God of Carnage (Redhouse); Grease (North Carolina Theatre); Spamalot (Casa Manana); The Other Josh Cohen (Geva Theatre); A Little Night Music, Parade (ATG); Into the Woods, Beauty and the Beast (Western Carolina University); Elf (Northern Michigan University); and Into The Woods (Nazareth College); and he has directed over 25 productions around the country of Million Dollar Quartet for such esteemed theaters as Center Rep (Theatre Bay Award for Best Director), The Paper Mill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre and St. Louis Rep.
As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County, Hands on a Hardbody, The Million Dollar Quartet, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors (Tony Nomination), Urinetown, Footloose, Les Miserables, King David, Pump Boys & Dinettes and Grease. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Musical Theatre program.