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American writer
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1981(Moscow, Latah County, Idaho, USA)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981) is an American playwright living in New York City.
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 for Outstanding Play. He is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. Hunter is also a writer and producer for the television show Baskets.
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 Nomination for Best Play
- 2011 Obie Award for Playwriting
- 2012 Whiting Award
- 2013 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding New York Theatre (Broadway and Off-Broadway)
- 2013 Drama Desk Special Award
- 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play
- 2014 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2015 Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Idaho
- 2019 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play
- 2020 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play
- 2013-2020 Resident Playwright at New Dramatists