Stephen Hunt(XXI)
- Producer
Stephen Hunt has produced a number of short films, including Melanee Murray-Hunt's shorts, The Hoodwink, Race Anonymous and Do the Math. Race Anonymous won the Best Dramatic Film at the 2017 Edmonton Short Film Festival, while the stage version of The Hoodwink won three awards at the 2014 Calgary One Act Play Festival.
Hunt also produced Looking Back, a 5 minute short based on a monologue he wrote, in Los Angeles, where he also served as an Assistant Producer on Edward James' Olmos ambitious Americanos: Latino Life in the United States, a multi-media exploration of Latino life in the U.S. that became a Sundance Award-winning HBO documentary, a Smithsonian Institution photo exhibit and a coffee table book published by Little, Brown.
Hunt also produced theatre in New York and on the Canadian fringe circuit, including various productions of his solo show The White Guy, which was presented by the Public Theatre in New York, HBO Workspace in Los Angeles on three different occasions, and at festivals in Orlando, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver, in addition to being anthologized in Best American Short Plays 1997-98.
The White Guy's television and film rights were purchased twice, first by Quincy Jones and Telepictures, an arm of Warner Bros, for development, and then later by Andrew Koster's Koster/Kovitz Productions. Hunt received Telefilm funding to write a treatment of that script in 2010.
In addition to his creative life as a playwright, monologist and producer, Hunt works as a digital producer at CBC Calgary, where he recently received a 2018 RTDA nomination for Excellence in Social Media.
He's also a part-time theatre critic at the Globe & Mail, and longtime member of the faculty in the University of British Columbia's MFA Program in Creative Writing, where he has taught writing for the stage for a dozen years. He also teaches journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and writes The Storytelling Project for Calgary Arts Development Authority.
Hunt has also worked as a freelance copywriter for ESPN, a Sports Illustrated stringer, and content creator/writer for Comedyworld.com. He's written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Italian Rolling Stone, the Globe & Mail, and many other publications.
Hunt also produced Looking Back, a 5 minute short based on a monologue he wrote, in Los Angeles, where he also served as an Assistant Producer on Edward James' Olmos ambitious Americanos: Latino Life in the United States, a multi-media exploration of Latino life in the U.S. that became a Sundance Award-winning HBO documentary, a Smithsonian Institution photo exhibit and a coffee table book published by Little, Brown.
Hunt also produced theatre in New York and on the Canadian fringe circuit, including various productions of his solo show The White Guy, which was presented by the Public Theatre in New York, HBO Workspace in Los Angeles on three different occasions, and at festivals in Orlando, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver, in addition to being anthologized in Best American Short Plays 1997-98.
The White Guy's television and film rights were purchased twice, first by Quincy Jones and Telepictures, an arm of Warner Bros, for development, and then later by Andrew Koster's Koster/Kovitz Productions. Hunt received Telefilm funding to write a treatment of that script in 2010.
In addition to his creative life as a playwright, monologist and producer, Hunt works as a digital producer at CBC Calgary, where he recently received a 2018 RTDA nomination for Excellence in Social Media.
He's also a part-time theatre critic at the Globe & Mail, and longtime member of the faculty in the University of British Columbia's MFA Program in Creative Writing, where he has taught writing for the stage for a dozen years. He also teaches journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and writes The Storytelling Project for Calgary Arts Development Authority.
Hunt has also worked as a freelance copywriter for ESPN, a Sports Illustrated stringer, and content creator/writer for Comedyworld.com. He's written for the Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Italian Rolling Stone, the Globe & Mail, and many other publications.