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Samuel D. Hunter

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Samuel D. Hunter
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Samuel D. Hunter (born 1981)[2] is an American playwright living in New York City.[3]

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Hunter was born in Pullman, Washington and raised in Moscow, Idaho.[1][4] 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.[3] He is also the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.[2] He has also been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, Fordham University, and other universities.[5]

Hunter is also a writer and producer for the television show Baskets.[6] A film adaptation of The Whale, written by Hunter and directed by Darren Aronofsky, was released in December 2022 and received two Academy Awards.

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