ABOUT

Hunter Bird is a Brooklyn-based theater director and writer specializing in innovative, new music theater. Currently, the Associate & Supervising Resident Director for Masquerade (immersive Phantom of the Opera), where he has cast/trained/noted over 80 actors covering 170 roles and maintains 6 productions running simultaneously in a six-story building in New York City.

Writer/director of The Pansy Craze, available on Audible, starring Mason Alexander Park and guest-starring Laverne Cox, Sasha Velour, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Evan Rachel Wood, Jackie Cox & Lea Delaria (Audible at the Minetta Lane Theater, London’s Underbelly Boulevard developed with Rachel Brosnahan’s company Scrap Paper Pictures). Recent directing credits include Blood/Love (Off Broadway, Drama Desk Best Choreo Nom) and Bronco Billy: The Musical (TimeOut London 5 Stars, 2 LA Ovation Awards).

He's developed new work with Ars Nova, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Village Theater, The McKittrick Hotel, Musical Theater Factory, NAMT Festival, and the Getty Villa. He's held writing residencies at the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, Warren Miller PAC, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Previous Associate/assistant director for Lynne Meadow, Des McAnuff, Diane Paulus, Alex Timbers, Pam MacKinnon, Susan Booth, Graciela Daniele, Doug Hughes, Gilbert Cates, Kristin Hanggi, The Debate Society, V (formerly Eve Ensler), and the National Theater of Scotland.

Hunter is currently the Artistic Producer of The New York SongSpace

Affiliations include CTG's inaugural Mid-Career Alumni Cohort, MTC’s Jonathan Alpert Fellowship, and The Civilians R&D Group

He has guest lectured and directed at NYU Steinhardt, Molloy College, and CAP21. Training: UCLA (BA Directing/Musical Theatre) and RADA.