He has active commissions from LCT3, Steppenwolf, Playwrights Horizons, and MTC/Ars Nova. His work has been developed at The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, JAW West, and elsewhere. Hunter is the winner of a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, and the 2008-2009 PONY Fellowship. His plays have been produced by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Woolly Mammoth, Denver Center Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb,, and elsewhere. Hunter 's plays include The Whale (2013 Drama Desk Award, 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (2011 Obie Award for Playwriting, 2011 Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), and his newest plays, The Few, A Great Wilderness, and Rest, all premiering in the 13/14 season. Now I am very glad I just read the play!. This reading will benefit Rattlestick Playwrights Theater." As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn't find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker is filled with incessant adoration, and his paper is filled with personal ads. Now he's returned-with no word of where he's been-and things have changed.
Four years ago, Bryan abandoned his labor of love: a newspaper for truckers. Reuniting the entire original cast of the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production, this live-streamed performance will feature Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick (To Kill A Mockingbird, Ocean's 8), Michael Laurence (Appropriate, "Damages"), and Tasha Lawrence (Pipeline, The Whale). Hunter (The Whale, Greater Clements, "Baskets"). And today, guess what?! They are doing an online streamed version next month! "On Saturday July 11th at 7:00pm EST, Play-PerView will present The Few, written and directed by Samuel D.
UPDATE! I wrote that line above (about wishing I had seen the play) YESTERDAY. Reuniting the entire original cast of the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production, this live-streamed performance will feature Tony Award nominee Gideon I wish I had seen the play live. In it's acclaimed run at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in New York City, The Few was praised for its "unusual insight into, and empathy for, people whose lives have settled into sad stasis, or strategic withdrawal." ( The New York Times) As he considers giving up for good, Bryan searches for what he couldn’t find on the road: a way to keep faith in humanity. Now he’s returned – with no word of where he’s been – and things have changed.
Four years ago, Bryan abandoned his labor of love, a newspaper for truckers. Hunter, the award-winning author of The Whale and Bright New Boise, and the 2014 recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, comes The Few. His former lover is filled with rage, his new coworker From Samuel D.