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Hunter Pope

Hunter Austin Pope (born 30 January 1995), known professionally as Hunter Pope, is a Utahn actor and award winning director.

He began acting at Wasatch Junior High in 2008, and had his first stage role in Bye Bye Birdie as Randalph's friend. After starring in films directed by himself, he was nominated for the Spaghetti Award in 2011 for his directing in John Matheson's No Matter How Small. In 2012 he won a Best Picture and Best Thriller for his work on "Ridgecroft" with Happy Mushroom Productions as both the main actor and the director.

Early life
Pope was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the third child of Michael and Jeanene Pope. He attended Elementary School at Upland Terrace Elementary School untill the sixth grade, when he moved to Wasatch Junior High. After the 9th grade, he went on to high school at Skyline High School (Utah).

Start to the Now
In 2008, Hunter attended Wasatch Junior High and took his first drama class under the direction of Mrs. Dodge. That year, he had his first roll in a stage musical, Bye Bye Birdie. The next two years he did not participate in the school plays because he couldn't get a roll. He did, however, start in to making movies, starting with a music video for his Spanish class, in which he acted, sang, edited, and directed. He received full points plus extra credit for his work on "Sombrero." He also made a movie based on a scene from the book "To Kill a Mocking Bird" Staring himself in two rolls, Ethan Berseris as Atticus Finch, and his older brother, Brandon Pope, as the rabid dog. Once again, Hunter Pope received full points plus extra credit, which was especially impressive, seeing as his English teacher seemed to have developed a strong dislike for him when he told her that she was "being way to noisy" right in the middle of class. From Wasatch he moved on to Skyline High School, Utah where he began taking classes on multimedia. In this class he was introduced to the Spaghetti Awards. The Spaghetti Awards are a prestigious film festival in which all the multimedia students at Skyline make submissions for the judges, and only the very best get shown, and the nominees for prizes are out standing. In 2011, Pope's film was nominated for 2 awards. Hunter participated in the musical at Skyline that year, South Pacific in the roll of Seabee Morton Wise. He also got the only singing roll in all of the non-musical production, "Dark of the Moon", but this production was cancelled due to questionable content. In 2012, Hunter and his team, Happy Mushroom Productions, made "Ridgecroft" for the Spaghetti Awards, which won both Best Thriller and Best Picture. Hunter made a very long acceptance speech.

Stuff
Hunter Pope is a singer. He sings mainly with the Skyline High School Troubadours, where he serves as vice president to President Elliot Lee. He has done filming for promotional videos for the Troubadours under the direction of James Pike. Hunter has played many a thing on stage, but his most prominent roll in a stage production was Mr. Vanderburer in Mr. Vanderburger and the Mystery of the Silver Toothbrush.

Personal life
Pope's family has lived in Salt Lake City for generations, tracing back many times over to the Mormon Pioneers. Hunter is proud of his pioneer heritage, which is in part why he decided to place his award winning film, "Ridgecroft", in the Pioneer time period. In his spare time, Hunter enjoys riding his unicycle, eating ice cream, playing capture the flag or ultimate Frisbee, sleeping, making films, hanging out with his friends, and being awesome. He is also awesome in his time that is not free.

Theatre
= He's notable because... = Hunter Pope is an award winning director and actor who has appeared in a number of films as well as a myriad of stage productions, although he has only directed films.