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title: "Deborah Hunt • Artists"
description: "Deborah Hunt has been working as a mask-maker, a mask and animation artist and a performer since 1972. She devises and presents witty plays and performances at festivals as well as encounters in the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Born in New Zealand, Deborah Hunt has lived in Puerto…"
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# Deborah Hunt

Last edited on 22.7.2026

## artist.bio

Deborah Hunt has been working as a mask-maker, a mask and animation artist and a performer since 1972. She devises and presents witty plays and performances at festivals as well as encounters in the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. Born in New Zealand, Deborah Hunt has lived in Puerto Rico since 1990. She is the founder of Maskhunt Motions, a nomadic laboratory for experimental object theatre work. Deborah Hunt describes her own work as ‘theatre of the useless’.

## Works at brut

- [Imagine Masks (Workshop, imagetanz 2025)](https://archiv2.brut-wien.at/de/Programm/Kalender/Programm-2025/04/WS-Deborah-Hunt)

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