Samuel D Hunter
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 19: Samuel D. Hunter attends 2013 Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall on May 19, 2013 in New York City.
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Off Broadway’s Lortel Awards Like ‘Piano Lesson,’ ‘Whale’
Piano Lesson” scored with four Lucille Lortel Awards at Off Broadway’s annual kudofest. The Playwrights Horizons staging of Samuel D. Hunter’s “The Whale” landed three trophies, including the top award for new play, while the Second Stage Theater bow of “Dogfight” from Variety Read more »
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‘The Whale’ is a hunt for human connection
lonely, alienated, often angry, sometimes inadvertently funny characters on a single stage than those who gather in Samuel D. Hunter’s “The Whale,” now in its Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens Theatre. So the question is this: Will THEIR dysfunction serve from Chicago Sun-Times Read more »
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'Whale' a devastating play about a man too big to move through life
the dying, pathetic, 600-pound man stuck on the couch in the middle of Samuel D. Hunter's beautifully devastating drama "The Whale," is familiar with blubber. An online writing teacher, he's a fan of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." When Charlie's caretaker, from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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David Auburn, Bekah Brunstetter and Samuel D. Hunter Selected for O'Neill Center's Playwrights Conference
by Samuel D.Hunter, Bekah Brunstetter and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof playwright David Auburn are among the eight plays that will be nurtured as part of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2013 National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, CT. The Playwrights from Playbill Read more »
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More than a play about a fat guy
better or worse — and playwright Samuel D. Hunter is smart enough to see it's probably very much for the better — the play titled "The Whale" has become known in theater circles as the play about the really fat guy stuck on a couch. Every new drama penned from Chicago Tribune Read more »
