Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981)
is an American
playwright living in
New York City
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.
Hunter was born and raised in
Moscow, Idaho. He is best known for plays ''A Bright New Boise'', which won the 2011
Obie Award for playwriting, and ''The Whale'', which won the 2013
Drama Desk Award and the 2013
Lucille Lortel Award
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for Outstanding Play.
[ He is also the recipient of a 2014 ]MacArthur Fellowship
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.[ He has also been a guest lecturer at ]Rutgers University–New Brunswick
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, Fordham University, and other universities.
Hunter is also a writer and producer for the television show ''Baskets
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''. A film adaptation of ''The Whale'', written by Hunter and directed by Darren Aronofsky
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Arono ...
, was released in December 2022.
Produced plays
* ''Five Genocides'' (2010)
* ''Jack's Precious Moment'' (2010)
* ''A Bright New Boise'' (2010)
* ''Norway'' (2011)
* ''A Permanent Image'' (2011)
* ''The Whale'' (2012)
* ''Pocatello'' (2014)
* ''The Few'' (2014)
* ''A Great Wilderness'' (2014)
* ''Rest'' (2014)
* ''Clarkston'' (2015)
* ''Lewiston'' (2016)
* ''The Healing'' (2016)
* ''The Harvest'' (2016)
* ''Lewiston/Clarkston'' (2018)
* ''Greater Clements'' (2019)
Awards and honors
*2008–2009 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York Fellowship
* 2011 Drama Desk
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Nomination for Best Play
*2011 Obie Award for Playwriting
* 2012 Whiting Award
* 2013 GLAAD Media Award
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for Outstanding New York Theatre (Broadway and Off-Broadway)
* 2013 Drama Desk
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Special Award
* 2013 Lucille Lortel Award
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for Best Play
* 2014 MacArthur Fellowship
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* 2015 Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Idaho
* 2019 ]Drama Desk
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Nomination for Best Play
* 2020 Drama Desk
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Nomination for Best PlayNew Dramatists
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See also
* List of playwrights
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Notes
External links
Samuel D. Hunter's New Dramatists PageProfile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
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1981 births
Living people
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
People from Moscow, Idaho
American male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American male writers
MacArthur Fellows
Writers from Idaho