Hunter Toro has signed with CAA for representation.
A comedy writer, Toro was a writer on Andy Samberg’s animated series Digman! for Comedy Central.
Her additional credits include Pete Davidson’s Peacock series Bupkis, and the hybrid scripted/unscripted Peacock series True Story, with Ed Helms and Randall Park.
She grew up near the swamps, where she’d pull her brother out of quicksand and watch her dad dump the corpses of beloved pets “for the gators to take care of.” Developing a dark sense of humor and a reliance on therapy was inevitable. She’s from a loud, mixed family—her father is Puerto Rican, her mother is white—which meant Hunter was never quite sure where she fits in.
She turned that feeling of alienation into a sense of humor.
Hunter has always known she wanted to be a writer. In high school, she also discovered a love of performing and spent a few years as a super sincere theater kid.
She apologizes to everyone she made listen to her harmonize in that four-year span. (In fact, you may even be entitled to compensation). Later, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hunter studied English lit only to realize she was not A Serious Person, and therefore probably not The Next Great American Novelist. In need of a new dream, she blended her love of performing and writing to pursue a career in TV. She started taking improv classes, writing sketches, and teaching herself screenwriting.
To pay the bills, she got a job at a hospital as a pediatric radiation oncology coordinator. She was worried the life-or-death nature of the job would make her comedy writing dreams seem unimportant, but instead found it confirmed that making people laugh was her calling. Soon after, she started working as an assistant at Bento Box Animation Studios. While Hunter loves all things comedy, animation has a special place in her heart. As someone with big feelings and a manic sense of humor, she feels seen by cartoons.
A graduate of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Toro was selected for the Black List x Women In Film Episodic Lab, and the 2021 Nickelodeon Writing Program.
She continues to be represented by Artists First and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner & Klein.
