Winner! 2011 Obie Award for PlaywritingNominated for the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
"While the play delves into big existential questions about religion and the search for meaning, Hunter's story is heartbreaking and humorous. The play takes place in employee break room of a Hobby Lobby, a fictionalized big-box crafts store in Boise, Idaho. The ensemble of employees is a comedic set of misfits, each struggling to find their way. The play's central character, Will, is a piously religious man who arrives at the Hobby Lobby after fleeing his small hometown where his "end of days" church was embroiled in a scandal. He reconciles the disappointing world around him with his belief in the coming rapture."
-PBS ARTBEAT
"Nothing is pretty about A Bright New Boise, a play that marches in the footsteps of Sam Shepard’s acid comedies, set in the weird American West...Hunter has such highly sensitive antennae for the look and rhythm of mundane places that A Bright New Boise develops an authentic texture, separate from other pieces in its genre."
- The Washington Post
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Playwright Samuel D. Hunter
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