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Occupation
  
Playwright

Plays
  
A Bright New Boise

Role
  
Playwright


Name
  
Samuel Hunter

Nationality
  
American

Movies
  
My America

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Notable works
  
A Bright New Boise, The Whale

Books
  
The Whale/A Bright New Boise, The Whale / a Bright New Boise

Awards
  
Obie Award for Playwriting, Drama Desk Special Award

Nominations
  
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

Similar People
  
Shuler Hensley, Jeffrey Sweet, Neil LaBute, A R Gurney, Rajiv Joseph

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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 for Outstanding Play. He is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.

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Produced works

  • 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)

    • 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

    • References

    Samuel D. Hunter Wikipedia
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