Sam Hunter

Samuel Hunter is a freelance director, educator, and sometime writer currently based in Berlin, Germany. He was a 2017-18 German Chancellor Fellow research ensemble systems. From 2011 to 2013 he was the founding artistic director of the Hungry River Theatre Company in Ridgecrest, CA. He writes and directs with The West. He holds a BA in theatre and a BS is psychology from the University of California, San Diego

Samuel Hunter is a freelance director, educator, and sometime writer currently based in Berlin, Germany. He was a 2017-18 German Chancellor Fellow research ensemble systems. From 2011 to 2013 he was the founding artistic director of the Hungry River Theatre Company in Ridgecrest, CA. He writes and directs with The West. He holds a BA in theatre and a BS is psychology from the University of California, San Diego

Scripts

Wandering Stars

Co-Author by Sam Hunter

Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
comedy,
movement/physical,
musical,
translation

The kids are gone! In the quiet shtetl of Holoneshti, young Leybl and Reyzl fall in love and run off with the travelling Yiddish theater. When the company splits up, the two spend the rest of their lives criss-crossing Europe and the US looking for one another.

The kids are gone! In the quiet shtetl of Holoneshti, young Leybl and Reyzl fall in love and run off with the travelling Yiddish theater. When the company splits up, the two spend the rest of their lives criss-crossing Europe and the US looking for one another.

Animal Animal

by Sam Hunter

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

The play follows the repetitive life of a mother and her children in their basement prison, as the children grow up and want more than life has given them. Based on the true story of Josef Fritzl.

The play follows the repetitive life of a mother and her children in their basement prison, as the children grow up and want more than life has given them. Based on the true story of Josef Fritzl.

Lady Into Fox

by Sam Hunter

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
fable/folktale

The actors tell the story of Richard and Silvia. Richard and Silvia Tebrick are walking through the woods behind their house in Oxfordshire, England in 1890. Suddenly, and for no reason, Silvia transforms into a fox. Richard takes her home, terrified he'll be thought crazy. He shoots the dogs and dismisses the staff and begins his new life alone with her. He tries to keep her indoors to avoid hunts, traps, and...

The actors tell the story of Richard and Silvia. Richard and Silvia Tebrick are walking through the woods behind their house in Oxfordshire, England in 1890. Suddenly, and for no reason, Silvia transforms into a fox. Richard takes her home, terrified he'll be thought crazy. He shoots the dogs and dismisses the staff and begins his new life alone with her. He tries to keep her indoors to avoid hunts, traps, and the cold. At first she is very much just a human in a fox's body, but gradually she becomes more and more a fox. She chases ducks, kills a rabbit, and eventually even plays dead in an effort to escape from her husband. In anguish, he lets her go and while he falls into a depression, she has kits with a dogfox. One day Richard sees her running from a fox hunt, she darts away from the hunt, but Richard never sees her again.

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Muttnik

by Sam Hunter

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
political,
science fiction

Laika, the first dog in space, is not feeling very good after launch. On the ground, Yazdovsky and Korolev realize something has gone wrong, and she won't survive the 7 days they thought she would - it will be closer to 5 hours. Word reach Laika and she resolves to take matters into her own hands.

Laika, the first dog in space, is not feeling very good after launch. On the ground, Yazdovsky and Korolev realize something has gone wrong, and she won't survive the 7 days they thought she would - it will be closer to 5 hours. Word reach Laika and she resolves to take matters into her own hands.