Hunter Bell (
Book)
earned an OBIE Award, a GLAAD Media nomination, a Drama League
nomination, a Jim Owles Human Rights Award, and a 2009 Tony
nomination for Best Book of a Musical all for
[title of
show]. Other credits include the book for
Silence!
The Musical, the book for the 137th edition of the Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus,
Bellobration!,
and the book for
Villains Tonight! for Walt Disney
Imagineering Creative Entertainment/Disney Cruise Lines. He
has contributed material to numerous benefits and events including
the Easter Bonnet and Gypsy of the Year competitions as well
as
Broadway Bares, all for Broadway Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS. He is also a co-creator of the web series the
[title of show] show on titleofshow.com. A finalist
in the Warner Brothers Comedy Writers’ Workshop, Hunter has
written numerous spec scripts, pilots, and industrial films,
and developed new works at the Dramatists Guild, the O’Neill
Center, Irish Rep, PS 122, Goodspeed/Chester, Manhattan Theatre
Club, the Neighborhood Playhouse, CanStage, and the Manhattan
Theatre Source, and is currently in development with ABC television
creating a new half/hour sitcom. As an actor, he has performed
both on and off Broadway, at the St. Louis Rep, Great Lakes
Theatre Festival, the North Shore Music Theatre, The MUNY,
Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Vineyard
Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Alliance Theatre, Carnegie Hall,
York Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and the Paper Mill
Playhouse. In 2003, he won the Connecticut Outer Critics Award
for Best Actor in a Musical. TV credits include, "Guiding
Light," Disney’s "Out of the Box," and Great
Performances on PBS. Film credits include:
Goodbye Baby, and
Men Who Stare at Goats. Born in Tuscaloosa Alabama,
Hunter is a graduate of Woodward Academy, a distinguished
alumnus of Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts
(where he earned a BFA in Musical Theatre), an honorary inductee
to the Yale Dramat, and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild,
Actors Equity, SAG/AFTRA, and the Writers Guild of America.