Bruce Hunter originally hails from Calgary where he studied improvisation and theatre at the University of Calgary under the guidance of Theatre Sports guru Keith Johnstone. As well as playing theatre sports at its inception during the early years of the Loose Moose Theatre he has worked in Dramatic theatre with One Yellow Rabbit and Ikarus Players, performing in the first years of the Edmonton fringe. Moving to Toronto in 1980 to study Mime with Ron East at the Toronto Mime School unlimited he then toured around Canada and the United States Performing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, North Carolina and Florida. Returning to Toronto he became involved in Second City in the touring and London Companies and started teaching Improvisation to what has now been thousands of students over his 25 years at Second City. Two years of teaching at Humber college in the music and theatre department, as well as the University of Toronto and Ryerson as a guest lecturer. Bruce also teaches in the industrial world. Focusing on listening skills, communication and stress management in the work place. Bruce remains a professional (working) actor and has performed in dozens of television shows and film projects "Hanson" "The Day Reagan was shot" "Good Will Hunting" "Eerie Indiana" "Degrassi" "Murder at 1600" "Monk" and "Mean Girls" to name a few. Some of his theatre credits include "Waiting for Godot" "Krapps last Tape" "Communicating Doors" "The Danish Play" "White Mice" "Democracy" "Coma Unplugged" and "Artifact" He has won awards for his commercial work in Canada and the U.S. He received two Canadian Comedy Awards for his improvisation. And was a Gemini winner for his voice work on "Atomic Betty" He has been seen on computers around the globe in "Truth in Advertising" a parody of the advertising business. Bruce played the lead in the 2003 Cannes award winning film "The Truth About Head" Bruce is also one of the founding members of the veteran comedy improv group "Illustrated Men" who have performed all over the world. He can be seen as Agent Jones in the Canadian independent film "Phil the Alien". Bruce can also be seen as a writer and performer in "After Hours with Kenny Robinson" Had his own comedy feature on CBCs "Comics" and plays Rocko in "Puppets Who Kill". He also Hosted and was executive producer of "AndGo" an improv television show for City TV. Presently he directs a regular long form improv show at Comedy Bar every Thursday at 8:30 called "The Workshop"
