John Hunter was a New Zealand performer, best known as a star female impersonator with the Kiwis Revue which performed in New Zealand and Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. [1] In the Kiwis revues, he notably performed two-hander scenes from Noel Coward's Private Lives and Bitter Sweet playing both male and female roles. [2]
He travelled to London in 1950 to study ballet, although rejoined the Kiwis in Australia by 1951. [3] Hunter performed in the mid to late 1950s with the New Zealand Players including as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1954. [4] He also played The Jester in the 1959 Australian production of Once Upon a Mattress at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne.