Annie Baker
Annie Baker | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Occupation | Playwright |
Nationality | American |
Notable works | Play Body Awareness (2008)
Play Circle Mirror Transformation (2009) Play The Aliens (2010) Play The Flick (2013) |
Annie Baker (born 1981) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.
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] 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.[6]
Her adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya premiered at the Soho Repertory Theatre in June 2012 and was called a "funky, fresh new production" by The New York Times reviewer.[7]
Her play The Flick premiered at Playwrights Horizons in March 2013. The New York Times reviewer wrote: "Ms. Baker, one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off Broadway in the past decade, writes with tenderness and keen insight..."[8] The play received the Obie Award for Playwriting in 2013.[9] The Flick won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[10]
She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
Baker was one of seven playwrights selected to participate in the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.[11] In 2011 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists.[12]
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)[13]
- Uncle Vanya (Adaptation), June 2012 at Soho Repertory Theatre
- The Flick, world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, March 2013
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
- ^ Hernandez, Ernio."Baker's World Premiere, Vermont-Set The Aliens Opens Off-Broadway" playbill.com, April 22, 2010
- ^ Isherwood, Charles. "Theater Review. 'Uncle Vanya,' Adapted by Annie Baker, at Soho Rep" The New York Times, June 18, 2012
- ^ Isherwood, Charles. "Theater review. 'The Flick,' by Annie Baker, at Playwrights Horizons" The New York Times, March 12, 2013
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "'Detroit', 'Grimly Handsome', Eisa Davis, John Rando, Shuler Hensley and More Are Obie Winners" playbill.com, May 20, 2013
- ^ Gans, Andrew. "Annie Baker's 'The Flick' Wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"playbill.com, April 14, 2014
- ^ "2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab fellows" Playbill.com
- ^ United States Artists Official Website
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."Nellie Bly Musical Will Sing in MTC Reading Series; Schreck, Mensch, Baker and More Get Voice" playbill.com, April 15, 2010
External links
- 1981 births
- American dramatists and playwrights
- American screenwriters
- Tisch School of the Arts alumni
- People from Amherst, Massachusetts
- Living people
- American women dramatists and playwrights
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners
- Writers from Boston, Massachusetts
- State University of New York at Stony Brook faculty