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Thom Dunn is a Boston-based writer, musician, and utterly terrible dancer. He is the singer/guitarist for the indie rock/power-pop the Roland High Life, as well as a staff writer for the New York Times’ Wirecutter and a regular contributor at BoingBoing.net. Thom enjoys Oxford commas, metaphysics, and romantic clichés (especially when they involve whiskey), and he firmly believes that Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" is the single greatest atrocity committed against mankind. He is a graduate of Clarion Writer's Workshop at UCSD ('13) & Emerson College ('08).

Huntington Updates

We've got one week left of The Jungle Book (now officially our highest-grossing show of all time), and previews began tonight for The Power of Duff, a new play by Stephen Belber (and featuring, among others, Jennifer Westfeldt, writer of Kissing Jessica Stein and wife of Jon Hamm). Here's a little video I put together about it:

"The funniest play you'll ever see about God and dead fathers." Director Peter DuBois, along with cast members David Wilson Barnes, Amy Pietz, Jennifer Westfeldt, and Brendan Griffin, discuss Stephen Belber's moving new drama THE POWER OF DUFF, presented by the Huntington Theatre Company Oct. 11 - Nov.

Here's another brief video I made for our Annual Fund ask, which hopefully gives a glimpse of the size and scope of our productions (and makes clear that even when shows are selling well, we still need money because, well, theatre this good don't come cheap, y'know?)

The Bare Necessities of a Huntington production are: - 19 cast members - 12 musicians - over 150 technical production staff, administrative staff, and artists behind the scenes - and YOU. Producing memorable theatre is a labor of love, requiring hard work by so many people.

I'm also trying to up my blogging quotient for the company -- because hey, I enjoy writing sometimes, believe it or not -- and here's one of my latest posts, about our new young donor program "The Hunt."

The Power of Duff at the Huntington

One of our other new plays in the Huntington's upcoming season is The Power of Duff, which had its world premiere last summer but is undergoing some extensive re-writes for this fall. I spoke with director Peter DuBois about the production in the video below, and I talk more extensively about the story and script over on the Huntington blog:

Artistic Director Peter DuBois discusses his collaboration on THE POWER OF DUFF, a moving new drama by Stephen Belber and a story unlike any he has ever told before. THE POWER OF DUFF plays Oct. 11 - Nov. 9, 2013 at the South End / Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.