Annie Baker
| Annie Baker | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 30–31) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable work(s) |
Play Body Awareness (2008) Play Circle Mirror Transformation (2009) Play The Aliens (2010) |
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Annie Baker (born 1981) is an American playwright.
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[edit] Career
Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[1] She earned her MFA from Brooklyn College.
Her play Body Awareness was staged Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company in May and June 2008. The play featured JoBeth Williams[2] and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
Circle Mirror Transformation premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in October 2009.[3][4] and received Obie Awards for Best New American Play and Performance, Ensemble.[5] The play has been nominated for the Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director of a Play, and the cast has been awarded a special Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble Performances.[6]
Her play, 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 for Best New American Play with Circle Mirror Transformation.[7]
She will be teaching in the MFA program at SUNY Stony Brook starting in late 2011.
Baker was one of seven playwrights selected to participate in the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.[8] In 2011 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists. [9]
[edit] Works
- Body Awareness, world premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, June 2008
- Circle Mirror Transformation, world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, October 2009
- The Aliens, world premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, (Off-Broadway) April 2010
- Nocturama (reading, May 10, 2010 at Manhattan Theatre Club)[10]
[edit] References
- ^ McGee, Celia.ProfileNew York Times, May 25, 2008
- ^ "Review of 'Body Awareness'"New York Times,
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."Acclaimed Circle Mirror Transformation Gets Another Extension, But Must Close Jan. 31" playbill.com, January 2010
- ^ "Internet Off-Broadway Database listing, 'Circle Mirror Transformation'" lortel.org, retrieved May 18, 2010
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Circle Mirror Transformation, Aliens, Metcalf and More Win OBIE Awards" playbill.com, May 17, 2010
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Drama Desk Award Nominations Announced; Ragtime and Scottsboro Top List" playbill.com, May 3, 2010
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio."Baker's World Premiere, Vermont-Set The Aliens Opens Off-Broadway" playbill.com, April 22, 2010
- ^ "2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab fellows" Playbill.com
- ^ United States Artists Official Website [1]
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."Nellie Bly Musical Will Sing in MTC Reading Series; Schreck, Mensch, Baker and More Get Voice" playbill.com, April 15, 2010
