Samuel D. Hunter is originally from Moscow, Idaho. He received his BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004, an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop in 2007, and is currently a playwright-in-residence at the Juilliard School. His plays include: I AM MONTANA at the 2007 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2007 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, NORMAN ROCKWELL KILLED MY FATHER at the 2005 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, ABRAHAM (A SHOT IN THE HEAD) at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater, ABRAHAM (I AM AN ISLAND) in Studio 42's Scattered Festival at Collective: Unconscious, PIGHEART in the 2007 Iowa New Play Festival, and his newest play, IDAHO / DEAD IDAHO, which received its first reading at Juilliard this Spring. Sam has taught at the University of Iowa, Fordham University, and in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at Ashtar Theater (Ramallah) and Ayyam al-Masrah (Hebron).
During her PONY year, Carson finished a commission for the Guthrie Theater, BE HERE NOW, and attended the opening in Minneapolis. She also finished TINY ROOMS, her commission for Next Theatre in Chicago. She finished a draft for ENCHANTMENT, her play on Bruno Bettelheim and Temple Grandin, which was read at Stanford University and the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley through Lark's partnership with Playwrights Foundation, and at the Lark in the final readings for Playwrights' Workshop. She will continue work on this piece at JAW West and two new plays at retreats with Partial Comfort Productions and the Lark at New York Stage and Film. She also started work with collaborator Erin Kamler on RUNWAY 69, a musical set in that notorious strip-club on the eve of the Times Square cleanup. The book was read at the Lark, and readings of Acts One and Two at New Dramatists. She and Erin were awarded the Loewe Award, which will support a larger workshop in the next year. Carson also signed with Bruce Ostler and Mark Orsisi at Brett Adams Ltd.