---
name: "Samuel D. Hunter"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/samuel-d-hunter"
fi1m_id: "samuel-d-hunter"
imdb_id: "nm5926708"
tmdb_id: 2932477
wikidata_id: "Q18354196"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-28T19:26:39.180615+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Samuel D. Hunter

## Identity

Samuel D. Hunter

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/samuel-d-hunter
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** samuel-d-hunter
- **IMDb ID:** nm5926708
- **TMDB ID:** 2932477
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18354196
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Hunter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18354196, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5926708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2932477

Producer. Born 1 January 1981 in Moscow, Idaho, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1981, Moscow, Idaho, USA
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 producing
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_D._Hunter, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18354196, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5926708/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2932477

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Whale*](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md) (54)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Samuel D. Hunter is an American playwright and screenwriter. He holds degrees in playwriting from New York University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juilliard School.

Hunter is best known for his plays *A Bright New Boise* (2011 Obie Award for Playwriting) and *The Whale* (2013 Drama Desk Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play). He adapted the latter into the screenplay for the 2022 film directed by Darren Aronofsky. He has also written for the television series *Baskets* (2016). Hunter received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, deadline.com, dramatistsguild.com, macfound.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *The Whale* (2022), Fi1m 54, Screenplay, Theatre Play — [page](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *Fallout* (2024), Fi1m 80, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Fallout* (2024), series, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/fallout.md)
- *The Whale* (2022), Theatre Play, Screenplay — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-whale.md)
- *Baskets* (2016), series, Writer, Staff Writer, Co-Producer, Consulting Producer
- *Maitreya*, Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![Samuel D. Hunter](https://film.one/media/person/375439/gallery-6d5ca6effbf7.png) Samuel D. Hunter — Jennnosek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/SamHunter2013.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Samuel D. Hunter](https://film.one/media/person/375439/gallery-2d818b8b2921.jpg) Samuel D. Hunter — Image via TMDB
- ![Samuel D. Hunter](https://film.one/media/person/375439/gallery-869610fdaf6f.jpg) Samuel D. Hunter — Image via TMDB

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