As a playwright his work contemplates the way that theatre specifically can shed new light on emerging problems of selfhood. His plays include Down by Contact (Dobama Theatre and Playwrights Local); Weimar (Baldwin Wallace University); To the Orchard (Playwrights Local and Jewish Play Project International Playwriting Contest finalist); and with his wife Elana, Aponibolinayen in the Sky (Talespinner Children’s Theatre) and A Light in the Night (Talespinner). He wrote for all three parts of the collaboratively written, NYC hit, The Jackson Heights Trilogy (Theatre 167) that Theatremania called “an epic song of America’s most diverse neighborhood.” Playscripts, YouthPLAYS, Brooklyn Publishers, Smith Scripts, and Indie Theatre publish and license his plays.

He is the past Ohio Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America, and the 2019/2020 Cleveland Public Theatre Premiere Fellow for playwriting. In 2020, Hunter was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for playwriting. With his wife Elana, he was awarded a 2023 Zanni Award for Creative Contributions from Talespinner Children’s Theatre. He is a former member of the Playwrights GYM at Dobama Theatre and has received residencies and developments from Ora Lerman, Millikin University, and Case Western/Cleveland Play House. He was previously the curator of new plays at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in New York City, literary director of Theatre 167, and co-founder of the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective. His creative prose appears in Fiction Southeast, Barnhouse, and the anthology Dating Games. From 2018-2020, he was the president of the board of Playwrights Local.

His academic research focus is on 20th-century American theatre and playwriting pedagogy. His forthcoming textbook, Decentered Playwriting: Alternative Techniques for the Stage (Routledge, 2024), includes a forward by David Henry Hwang. Paula Vogel said of the book, “What extraordinary conversations are gathered here in these pages.” His articles and reviews have additionally appeared in American Theatre Magazine, The Dramatist, Text & Presentation, HowlRound, Theatre Journal, The Wallace Stevens Review, Ecumenica, Cutbank, Theatre Survey, and the edited collections Performing the Progressive Era (U Iowa Press), Experimental O’Neill (Rare Bird), and Teaching Critical Performance Theory (Routledge).

In 2014, Hunter attended the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard University. Dr. Hunter is an associate professor of English at Baldwin Wallace University, where he received the 2019 Bechberger Award for Human Development. PhD: Stony Brook University, MFA: Boston University, MA: Brooklyn College.