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Annie Baker (born April 1981) [1] is an American playwright, film director, and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: Circle Mirror Transformation , Nocturama , Body Awareness , and The Aliens .
- Early Life
- Career
- Style
- Honors
- Works
Baker's family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Baker was born, but soon moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, where she grew up and where her father, Conn Nugent, was an administrator for the Five Colleges consortium and her mother Linda Baker was a psychology doctoral student. Her brother is author Benjamin Baker Nugent. Baker graduated from th...
Plays
Body Awareness, her first play produced Off-Broadway, was staged by the Atlantic Theater Company in May and June 2008. The play featured JoBeth Williams. Circle Mirror Transformation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in October 2009 and received the Obie Awardfor Best New American Play and Performance. The Aliens, which premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in April 2010, was a finalist for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and shared the 2010 Obie Award fo...
The Shirley, Vermont Plays Festival
In October and November 2010, three Boston theatre companies produced Baker's three plays that are set in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont: Circle Mirror Transformation, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company, Body Awareness, produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company, and The Aliens, produced by Company One.
Teaching
Baker teaches playwriting at New York University, Barnard College, and in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She is also on the faculty of the Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA in Playwriting program of Hunter College.
Time Out New York wrote in 2008 that Baker "creates normal individuals coping with everyday issues in their small-town lives," and that her play Body Awareness "marks the arrival of a new playwright who would seem to fit the quirky bill, but aims for sincerity instead. Even though there's goofiness aplenty in her work, [she] sticks to straightforwa...
Baker was one of seven playwrights selected to participate in the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. In 2011 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists. In 2013 she received The Steinberg Playwright Award, which included a $50,000 prize. She was a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Arts Drama & Performance Art. A new play, titled The Last of t...
Theatre
1. Body Awareness, world premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, June 2008 2. Circle Mirror Transformation, world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, October 2009 3. The Aliens, world premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (Off-Broadway), April 2010 4. Nocturama, reading, May 10, 2010 at Manhattan Theatre Club 5. Uncle Vanya(adaptation), June 2012 at Soho Repertory Theatre 6. The Flick, world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, March 2013 7. John, world premiere at Signature Theatre Company, J...
Film
1. Janet Planet(2023)
Sarah Larson looks at “The Flick” and “John,” two plays by Annie Baker, and the playwright’s use of representations of life to illustrate empathy.
Jun 11, 2015 · NPR's Robert Siegel talks with playwright Annie Baker about her play, The Flick, which won the Pulitzer Prize last year.
Annie Baker (born April 1981, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American playwright, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Flick (2013).
Dec 1, 2023 · Her three-hour play ‘The Flick’, about downtrodden ushers at a failing cinema, won Annie Baker the Pulitzer Prize and an ardent following of admirers.
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Jan 22, 2018 · Annie Baker has created a new kind of epic play: richly detailed, quiet, slow-burning dramas, full of tragicomic details about the mundanity of everyday life.
