Samuel D. Hunter – författare

Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Winner! 2011 Obie Award for Playwriting Nominated for the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise is a earnest comedy about the meager profits of modern faith. In the bleak, corporate break room of a craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. Will, who has fled his rural hometown after a scandal at his Evangelical church, comes to the Hobby Lobby, not only for employment, but also to rekindle a relationship with Alex, his brooding teenage son, whom he gave up for adoption several years ago. Alex works there along with Leroy, his adopted brother and protector, and Anna, a hapless young woman who reads bland fiction but hopes for dramatic endings. As their manager, foul-mouthed Pauline, tries ceaselessly to find order (and profit) in the chaos of small business, these lost souls of the Hobby Lobby confront an unyielding world through the beige-tinted impossibility of modern faith. "This clear-eyed comedy will lift your heart." -Time Out New York "Samuel D. Hunter has offered us a humorous and touching exploration of faith and family" - NYTheatre.com "Samuel D.Hunter has effectively rendered himself a playwright to watch with A Bright New Boise...a quietly affecting drama that delves into the always thorny issues of faith, forgiveness, and second chances with great eloquence and compassion." -TheatreMania

Winner! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award Best Play Winner! 2013 Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre Winner! 2013 GLAAD Media Award Outstanding New York Theatre Nominee! 2013 Drama League Award Outstanding Production of a Play Nominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play Nominee! 2013 John Gassner Award Oustanding New American Play On the outskirts of Mormon Country Idaho a six hundred pound recluse hides aw

A retirement home in northern Idaho is being shut down and only three residents and a bare-bones staff remain. When a record breaking blizzard blows into town and an elderly resident disappears into the storm everyone is brought to face their own mortality.

Eddie manages an Italian chain restaurant in Pocatello-a small unexceptional American city that is slowly being paved over with strip malls and franchises. But he can't serve enough Soup Salad & Breadstick Specials to make his hometown feel like home. Against the harsh backdrop of Samuel D. Hunter's Idaho this heartbreaking comedy is a cry for connection in an increasingly lonely American landscape.

Twenty-five years ago a motley group of friends met as kids at a summer camp where the head counselor secretly taught them that their disabilities could be "cured" through the power of prayer. Today the group has gathered to mourn the untimely passing of one of its members. Over the course of the night old wounds are uncovered friendships are tested and the truth surrounding their late friend becomes troublingly clear.

In the basement of a small evangelical church in southeastern Idaho a group of young missionaries is preparing to go to the Middle East. One of them - a young man who has recently lost his father - has bought a one-way ticket. But his plans are complicated when his estranged sister returns home and makes it her mission to keep him there.

In the fictional mining town of Greater Clements Idaho wealthy out-of-staters have begun purchasing properties leaving lifelong residents - largely blue-collar workers - disenfranchised and disenchanted. Practical unpretentious Maggie the divorced owner of a failing Mine Tour and Museum business cares for her troubled adult son who has moved back home to recover. As Maggie contemplates closing her business an old flame visits and asks her to join him in a new life beyond the desolate town's limits. Through quirky humor keen observation and deeply sensitive and idiosyncratic characters Greater Clements explores just how hard it can be to leave one's past behind.

Two estranged half brothers one in Grangeville, one in Amsterdam reconnect virtually in discussions surrounding the care of their ailing mother. A play about the fallibility of memory, the stories we tell to make sense of our suffering, and the complexity of forgiveness.Playwright Samuel D. Hunter, known for his emotional breadth and depth, expands on the brotherly estrangement narrative by integrating the effects of family trauma on spouses alongside the evergreen conversation of how adult children take care of their aging parents.