(he/him) Samuel D. Hunter grew up in Moscow, Idaho and lives in NYC with his husband and daughter. His full-length 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), Greater Clements (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Honoree), Lewiston/Clarkston (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing,and The Harvest, among others. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the PONY/Lark Fellowship, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Idaho. A forthcoming film version of The Whale, adapted by Hunter, directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Brendan Fraser, is set to be released by A24 Films. His plays have been produced in New York at Lincoln Center Theater, LCT3, Playwrights Horizons, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Page 73; elsewhere his work has been produced at such theaters as Theatre Royal Bath, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Marin Theater Company. Two published anthologies of his plays are available from TCG Books, and a third is forthcoming. He is a member of New Dramatists and is a current Resident Playwright at the Signature Theater in New York. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard.