Robbie Taylor Hunt

Robbie is a queer Kiwi-Brit writer & director.

He’s co-written and directed three comedy plays produced at Soho Theatre: Lesbian Space Crime, Pansexual Pregnant Piracy, and Count Dykula. Lesbian Space Crime was nominated for an Offie for Best New Play, shortlisted for New Diorama’s Untapped Award, and was a finalist for Sister/South of the River’s SCREENSHOT.

He’s trained with Sitcom Mission and had a sitcom pilot longlisted by ShortCom. His sketch “Token Straight Friend” was shortlisted for Comedy Crowd’s Chorts. He’s also directed and co-written two comedy webseries.

His theatre directing credits include: Eris by John King (Bunker Theatre), Rabbit by Nina Raine (Mercury Theatre), Tuna by Rosanna Suppa (VAULT Festival), and How We Love by Annette Brooke (VAULT Festival, Peckham Theatre, Arcola Theatre). His assisting credits include: Consent (dir. Roger Michell, West End), Bitter Wheat (dir. David Mamet, West End), and Speech & Debate (dir. Tom Attenborough, Trafalgar Studios).

He also writes fiction and was selected for Penguin’s WriteNow 2025 programme for underrepresented authors. This is with his first manuscript, a horror-fantasy about phobias.

He’s a trained Intimacy Coordinator and has worked as an IC for the past 6 years on TV projects for Netflix, AppleTV, Paramount+, Disney+, the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and more, and on films such as Red, White & Royal Blue, Pillion, and Femme. He’s represented as an IC by Nia Hughes at Sara Putt Associates.