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Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981) is an American playwright living in New York City. Hunter was born and raised in Moscow, Idaho. [dead link] 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.
Jan 31, 2023 · “It’s never gonna be this good ever again,” says Samuel D. Hunter, screenwriter of The Whale. An experienced playwright, Hunter adapted his work from the stage to the screen for the very first time on the Darren Aronofsky picture, which stars Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound writing professor who tries to reconnect with his ...
Samuel D. Hunter grew up in Moscow, Idaho. His full-length plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Case for the Existence of God (New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play), Greater Clements (Drama Desk ...
Jan 18, 2023 · At the beginning of playwright Samuel D. Hunter’s career, before he’d even been produced in New York, he was living with his boyfriend in an illegal midtown sublet and teaching expository...
Dec 26, 2022 · Writer Samuel D. Hunter digs deep to let loose his truth for ‘The Whale’. Writing “The Whale,” says Samuel D. Hunter, “felt entirely different than my previous plays. It was at once ...
Dec 9, 2022 · An eating disorder developed after intense trauma has left him houseridden, but his doorstep is active nonetheless. First a young missionary from the evangelical church down the road shows up...
Nov 27, 2019 · WALLACE, Idaho — Late in October, the playwright Samuel D. Hunter crouched in a defunct silver mine in Northern Idaho. A blue hard hat sat on his head and 600 feet of quartz, zinc and lead...
