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Samuel D. Hunter is from Moscow, Idaho. He received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU in 2004, an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop in 2007, and recently graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright-in-Residence Program at Juilliard. Sam is a two-time recipient of Lincoln Center’s Le Compte du Nuoy Award, a current member of Playgroup at Ars Nova, and was awarded the 2008-2009 Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship from the Lark Theater, where he is a member of the Lark Playwrights Workshop. His plays include: I AM MONTANA (produced at London’s Arcola Theater in June 2009, produced at Montana Repertory Theater in November 2008, developed at the Flea Theater, 2007 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2008 Ojai Playwrights Conference, 2008 Juilliard New Play Festival, 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival), IDAHO / DEAD IDAHO (2009 Princess Grace Award Runner-Up, developed at the 2009 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Ars Nova, Juilliard, the Lark Theater, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), NORMAN ROCKWELL KILLED MY FATHER (developed at the 2005 O’Neill Playwrights Conference), ABRAHAM (A SHOT IN THE HEAD) (produced at Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater), HELLS CANYON (developed at Juilliard and the 2009 LAByrinth Summer Intensive), GOD OF MEAT (developed at the Lark Theater, Partial Comfort, the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco, and Stanford University), and his newest play, ATLASING SODOM (developed at the Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Workshop in July 2009, forthcoming reading at Playwrights Horizons in October 2009). Sam has taught at the University of Iowa, Fordham University, and in the Palestinian Territories at Ashtar Theater (Ramallah) and Ayyam al-Masrah (Hebron). At Ashtar, he was co-writer on THE ERA OF WHALES which was produced in the West Bank and at the Istanbul International Theater Festival in Turkey. |
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