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Samuel D. Hunter'splays 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 Bright New Boise(Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play),The Few, A Great Wilderness,Rest,Pocatello, The Healing, The Harvest, Lewiston, Clarkston,and most recently,Greater Clements. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur ""Genius Grant"" Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and around the country at such theaters as Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. His work has been developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and PlayPenn. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, a member of Partial Comfort Productions, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.
"""[Hunter] is interested in American disenchantment, in the great adventure stories we've told ourselves about ourselves, and the legacy of those stories in a time when 'there's just nothing left to discover.' His characters are contemporary lost souls, too aware of the underbelly of the American narrative -- of all that was lost and stolen and destroyed in the name of exploration and expansion -- to believe in anything so naïve as a national dream, but still searching, stumbling down unknown paths toward something as small, or as great, as each other.""-- ""New York Magazine on Lewiston/Clarkston"" ""A bleak but harrowingly beautiful drama that builds to a devastating impact.""-- ""Hollywood Reporter on Greater Clements"" ""Gorgeously clear-eyed and sorrowful.""-- ""Time Out New York on Greater Clements"" ""Riveting, haunting, extraordinary... Leave it to Hunter, right at this moment, to find something beautiful beyond dispute that unites us as Americans, and as all people living here.""-- ""New York Stage Review on Lewiston/Clarkston"" ""The best new play of the year...[a] moving, consistently absorbing drama of an Idaho mining town whose identity and history are disappearing, like the faces in an old Polaroid photo.""-- ""Washington Post on Greater Clements"" ""Theater of the most deeply moving kind... By the evening's end, you'll have a palpable sense of having shared something special with your fellow theatergoers.""-- ""Hollywood Reporter on Lewiston/Clarkston"""
