Five Plays

Plays in this collection: Rest, A Great Wilderness, The Few, Pocatello.Rest premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, CA) in the spring 2014. A Great Wilderness premiered at Seattle Repertory Theatre in the winter 2014. The Few premiered at The Old Globe (San Diego, CA) in the fall 2013 with a subsequent Off-Broadway run at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Pocatello premiered at Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in the fall 2014. Pocatello and Rest are recipients of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays awardPlaybill called 2014 “The Year of the Hunter” in reference to the numerous stagings of Hunter’s works.Hunter is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2014, which entails a grant of $625,000 to be paid over five years.One of the foremost modern American playwrights; especially relevant to Americans in suburban or rural regions of America as all of his plays are set in Idaho.One of the most widely commissioned playwrights of 2014 from theatres all over the country, like LCT3, Steppenwolf, Playwrights Horizons, MTC/Ars Nova, and many more.Winner of an Obie Award for A Bright New Boise and Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for The Whale