Samuel D. Hunter Discusses, Sign Play Collection at Drama Book Shop Tonight

The Drama Book Shop welcomes playwright Samuel D. Hunter for a discussion about his recently published play collection.

Today's 5:00pm event is free to the public and will be followed by a signing. Copies of the collection, published by Theatre Communications Group, will be available for purchase ($16.95).

Samuel D. Hunter's plays are populated with characters from the bleak side of the American economy. Laced with poetic images yet drawn with meticulous realism, Hunter's plays linger in franchise restaurants, retirement facilities, mountain camps and struggling businesses. The five plays collected here, all set in Hunter's home state of Idaho, demonstrate this writer's knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives. Hunter's other plays include The Whale, A Bright New Boise, The Healing and The Harvest. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, The Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. He holds an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Idaho.

The Drama Book Shop, a 2011 Tony Award Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, is located at 250 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Events are free to the public. To learn more, visit www.dramabookshop.com.