WHYY: Another Samuel D. Hunter? Audiences Get To See New Plays Develop
- PlayPenn
- Jul 3
- 1 min read
Back in 2010, Samuel D. Hunter was a young New York playwright fresh out of Moscow, Idaho, when Philadelphia gave him a life-changing opportunity.
Professional actors, sitting on folding chairs, using scripts propped on music stands, read his fledgling play start-to-stop to a Philly audience, which let him know, as Philly audiences would, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The play, workshopped at PlayPenn’s 2010 New Play Development Conference, swam upstream to become “The Whale,” in 2022, a prize-winning movie that grossed $57.6 million at the box office.
Could it happen again? Maybe.
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