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“One of our finest young playwrights”

—TIME OUT NEW YORK

“Hunter has an undeniable empathy for the Eleanor Rigbys of this country, people who see themselves as trapped forever in confining isolation.”

—BEN BRANTLEY, NEW YORK TIMES

“Hunter is a playwright who crafts moving portraits of unlikely protagonists and explores the human capacity for empathy through the prism of his characters’ struggles . . . Hunter’s quietly captivating dramas confront the polarizing and socially isolating aspects of contemporary life across the American landscape.”

—MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

“A Permanent Image is a haunting gut-punch that comes from nowhere and leaves audiences feeling both numb and exposed . . . The play looks at how some of us cope when confronted with just how small our lives really are in the big picture.”

—DEANNA DARR, BOISE WEEKLY

“Hunter . . . is turning into the leading dramatic chronicler of dispossessed, working-class Americans, characters who rarely show up in, and are rarely understood by, works by fancy playwrights born into, and funded by, urbane, arty worlds. Hunter’s style . . . is not to absolve his characters of their complicity in a lack of accomplishment, but nonetheless to show the forces working against them in this changed nation.”

—CHRIS JONES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“If there’s a soul adrift—physically or spiritually—in the Gem State, chances are good he sprang from the fertile pen of Samuel D. Hunter.”

—PLAYBILL

“A Great Wilderness is meant to challenge, and most will leave the theater with a somber and agonizing sense of unfairness.”

—SARAH BRINK, VANGUARD SEATTLE

“Hunter hears Middle America’s quiet desperation, the low moan of people who have lost their connection to the past, to loved ones, to the lives they thought they’d lead. Many of them are living on the margins, losing ground. These are the inhabitants of his resonant, often ruefully funny plays. Hunter . . . writes with preternatural insight into people of all ages and wildly differing circumstances.”

—DARYL H. MILLER, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Hunter is an important new voice in the American theater.”

—CHARLES MCNULTY, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“Hunter tunes into a high frequency of empathy for isolated social-fringe dwellers.”

—MISHA BERSON, SEATTLE TIMES