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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. 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. He has also been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Fordham University, and other universities.
Hunter is also a writer and producer for the television show Baskets. A film adaptation of The Whale, written by Hunter and directed by Darren Aronofsky, was released in December 2022 and received two Academy Awards.




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)
A Case for the Existence of God (2022)
Little Bear Ridge Road (2024)
Grangeville (2025)




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 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage
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
2013–2020 Resident Playwright at New Dramatists
2020 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Play
Premiere Writer-in-Residence at Signature Theatre Company
2022 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
2023 Critics Choice Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
2023 BAFTA Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
2023 Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award




See also


List of playwrights




Notes






External links


Samuel D. Hunter's New Dramatists Page
Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
"A Conversation with Samuel D. Hunter". The Whale (PDF). South Coast Repertory. pp. P3–P4.

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