Hunt created the role of Aunt Dan in Wallace Shawn's play "Aunt Dan and Lemon". She was a member of the Long Wharf Theatre Company in Connecticut. There, she played the Player Queen in a production of "Hamlet", among other roles. She portrayed Sister Aloysius in the Pasadena Playhouse production of John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt". Hunt was praised for her performance as the title character in Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children". Hunt also appeared as Pope Joan in Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" when London's Royal Court Theatre's production was staged at the Public Theater in New York.