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Photo Credit: Yellowbelly, 2023
Jack Hunter is an award-winning Writer, Actor & Spoken Word Poet.
- Cove Park Awarded Residency (2026)
- Visual Performance & Puppetry Fund Recipient (2025-2026)
- I Am Loud Highland Slam Champion (2023)
- Winner of the Summerhall Mary Dick Award (2022)
- Playwright Studio Scotland & Birds of Paradise Theatre Mentorship Award (2021)
As a disabled artist, I am motivated to tell stories that give voice to people who are oppressed and marginalised in society. Humour is an essential component of my work. I believe it has the transformative ability to question societal norms and open audiences up to challenging conversations.
Featured Work
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One of Two
- Writer
- Actor
- Theatre
One-man comedy-drama about two twins growing up with cerebral palsy: Bec (a wheelchair user) and Jack (who walks with a limp). Each twin had a very different experience navigating life.
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Flight of the Pupniks
- Writer
- Deviser
- Theatre
After the launch of Sputnik (in 1957) the first satellite into space, the starting pistol in the space race between the USA and the Soviet Union was fired. Little did stray dogs Belka and Strelka know their names would soon be written in the stars.
Creative Practice
Writing
Jack’s written work for the stage has received critical acclaim across Scotland and Europe.
Photo Credit: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan, Oran Mor, Glasgow, September 2024.
Articulated with a charm, humour and light-touch use of film and visual images that mark Hunter’s arrival as a major presence in Scottish theatre.
Acting
Jack is an award-nominated actor that has worked on stage, screen & radio across the UK & Europe.
Notable Theatre credits include: The Pulitzer Prize winning Cost of Living (Hampstead Theatre). Kerbs (Graeae Theatre/ Belgrade Theatre). Teenage Dick (Donmar Theatre) All You Need is LSD (Told By An Idiot/ Birmingham Rep).
Screen credits include: Indefinitely (Hot Coals Productions); Annika (Black Camel Pictures) and Traces (Red Productions).
Radio work includes: Bartholomew Abominations (Naked Productions/ Graeae Theatre/ BBC Radio 4).
Photo Credit: Manuel Harlan, Hampstead Theatre, London, January 2019.
Magnificent actor… Hunter finds a lovely humour and a surprising hauteur as John.
Spoken Word Poetry
Jack is an award-winning Spoken Word Poet. He has performed at arts and music festivals across Scotland.
Photo Credit: Katie Ailes, Storytelling Centre, 2024.
Jack Hunter’s dictionary-ransacking reliance on words…
The Glasgow Review of Books on Spoken Word
Arts Facilitation
Jack has led facilitation projects with organisations such as Unlimited, Imaginate, Eden Court Theatre & The Film Academy Edinburgh.
Image Credit: Imogen Reiter, 2024.
I don’t have drama in my school. This experience gave me some knowledge on what I would like to do for my future career… I really enjoyed this experience and I will remember it.