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Greater Clements and Other Plays

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This collection includes Hunter's plays Greater Clements and Lewiston and Clarkston, which are two interrelated but distinct plays. Greater Clements premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in the winter of 2019. The Washington Post called it "the best new play of the year." Greater Clements was the recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Lewiston / Clarkston premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in the fall of 2018. The production was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Hunter is an American playwright best known for his plays A Bright New Boise and The Whale. The Whale won the 2013 Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play. A Bright New Boise received a 2011 Obie Award and Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Play. Hunter’s other plays include: The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing, The Harvest, and Greater Clements. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and around the country at such theaters as Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, a member of Partial Comfort Productions, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. Hunter's play The Whale is being made into a film at A24, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Brendan Fraser, with Hunter writing the screenplay.

Author Biography:

Samuel D. Hunter's plays include The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing, The Harvest, Lewiston, Clarkston, and most recently, Greater Clements. He is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, a 2012 Whiting Writers Award, the 2013 Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, the 2011 Sky Cooper Prize, the 2008 PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. His plays have been produced in New York at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb and Page 73, and around the country at such theaters as Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, the Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. His work has been developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils, and PlayPenn. He is a member of New Dramatists, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, a member of Partial Comfort Productions, and was a 2013 Resident Playwright at Arena Stage. A native of northern Idaho, Sam lives in NYC. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.
Release date NZ
August 6th, 2024
Pages
280
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9781636700137
Product ID
35231535

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