Luke Hunter

Luke has an established career in Australia as a Helpmann and Green Room Award winning Musical Director.

He is currently the Musical Director for the Australian production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, having recently been Musical Director for Moulin Rouge and Come From Away, for which he received a Green Room Award.

Luke was Musical Director and Music Supervisor Australia for the Australian productions of Jersey Boys, for which he received both the Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Best Musical Direction. He co-arranged the Australian Anthem for the boys to perform at the AFL Grand Final.

Other Musical Direction credits include Kinky Boots (Helpmann award nomination), The Addams Family (newtheatricals), Dedications starring John O’Hara for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Gale Edwards’ acclaimed production of The Rocky Horror Show, The Sound of Music and the Australian tour and Singapore seasons of Grease for the Gordon Frost Organisation, a concert version of Beauty and the Beast for the Rob Guest Endowment and Melbourne Zoo, Shout! (regional tent tour), Oh! What a Night, Leader of the Pack (Green Room Award for Best Musical Direction), Falsettos (Blackbird productions), Up written by Eddie Perfect and 42 Street for the Victorian College of the Arts, Todd McKenney Live at the 2006 Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Floorplay in Atlantic City and Burn the Floor in Las Vegas. In 2003, he performed and co-wrote the cabaret Get Here for the York Theatre Company in New York with fellow Australians Simon Gleeson, Natalie O’Donnell and Deone Zanotto.

Luke’s original collection of songs The Book of Luke premiered at The New Capers in Melbourne in March, 2007. He writes music for Meerkat Productions, who tour works to school children across the country.

Luke completed a Bachelor of Performing Arts Degree from Monash University in 1997, and began his career onstage. He appeared as Schlomo Metzenbaum in Fame the Musical, both in Australia and overseas, and in the casts of the original Australian productions of Shout! and Oh! What a Night.

A passionate educator, he completed his Graduate Diploma of teaching in 2005, and has taught music and singing in tertiary institutions as guest lecturer, and in secondary education.

Luke is the co-creator of the iPhone App Warm Me Up! which provides vocal warm-ups to singers worldwide.

Luke is represented by Aran Michael Management.