Marlo Hunter is a film & TV director, and theater director and choreographer who was recently honored as a "2022 Woman to Watch on Broadway".  Her feature film directorial debut, American Reject, isavailable on Amazon, Apple +. American Reject stars Kathleen Monteleone (also screenplay), Keala Settle, Annaleigh Ashford, Billy Ray Cyrus, and introduces Angelica Hale (“America’s Got Talent”). The film debuted at festivals in fall 2020 where it garnered multiple honors including Best Narrative Feature -BendFilm Festival. Recent: Marlo directed and choreographed the Off-Broadway World Premiere of Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical for TheaterWorksUSA, which was hailed as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and launched its national tour in Fall 2023. Earlier this year she directed Mystic Christmas for Hallmark, which airs October 2023 (starring Jessy Schram, Chandler Massey & Patti Murin). Marlo is currently helming the Ever After musical, produced by Tony Award-winner, Kevin McCollum, with Music by Zina Goldrich, Lyrics by Marcy Heisler, and Book by Marcy Heisler & Kate Wetherhead (NYC Workshop & Ordway concert, Fall 2023). Upcoming: World Premiere of A Hanukkah Carol, or Gelt Trip! The Musical (Director/Choreographer) at the Round House Theatre in D.C. (December 2024). 

Through Marlo's 20-year theatrical career she has become a prolific developer of new plays and musicals, at times shepherding projects from inception to full production. She is often noted for her kinetic staging and facility with comedy.

Select credits: Saved by the Bell: The Musical (director - workshop) with book by series' creator & EP, Peter Engel. Brad Ellis ("Glee"), Music Director. Director of the unprecedented 9 episode podcast musical, Little Did I Know, released on Apple Podcasts in March 2020. The series was #2 on Apple Podcast's performing arts charts within 4 days of release. Marlo has directed, choreographed and developed new work at Second Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Pittsburgh CLO, Bay Street, TUTS Underground, NJ Rep, Bloomington Playwrights Project, NYMF, The Lark at NY Stage & Film, The Orchard Project, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, among others. She is an alumna of the Sundance Theatre Lab, a Drama League residency recipient, an alumna of the Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corp, a 2016 National Directors Fellowship Finalist. Marlo was the winner of the 2013 Callaway Award for Excellence in Choreography for Unlock'd, which she directed & choreographed Off-Broadway. She is the Co-Creator & Director of The Theatrical Culinary Project – an immersive theater and dining experience in development putting Top Chef finalist & The Chew Co-Host, Carla Hall, into collaboration with playwrights Martyna Majok (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Jeff Augustin, Daniel Pearle, Harrison David Rivers and Julian Sheppard. Marlo was the Associate Director of the Off-Broadway Clueless musical starring Dove Cameron, and adapted by Amy Heckerling herself for the stage.

In 2008 Marlo founded Eating Their Words, putting playwrights and chefs into collaboration for immersive experiences in New York's finest restaurants, resulting in World Premiere plays coupled with the menu they inspired. Through ETW Marlo commissioned & directed new plays by Neil LaBute, Beau Willimon, Douglas Carter Beane, Sarah Treem, Theresa Rebeck, David Grimm, Annie Baker, Brooke Berman, Amy Herzog, Keith Reddin, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Sam Forman, Rob Ackerman, Steven Levenson, Zakiyyah Alexander, Liz Flahive, Aurin Squire, Aziza Barnes and Eisa Davis.

Marlo teaches a workshop, "The Freelance Artist's Manifesto Boot Camp" in NYC, at universities, and through private coaching, empowering creative freelancers with mental and practical tools to survive and thrive as an artist. She holds a B.A. in English/Dramatic Literature from Princeton University, and a Classical Diploma (study of Latin & Greek) from Phillips Exeter Academy. Marlo is a proud member of the SDC. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.