Annie Baker
Annie Baker
Annie Baker is an American playwright 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, Body Awareness, and The Aliens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth6 May 1981
CountryUnited States of America
fictional plays town trying
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
writing play personality
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
tongue terrible tied
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
college thinking opposites
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
writing way primaries
Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
light darkness shadow
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
witty thinking pace
I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
growing-up writing thinking
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
writing college play
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
mother kitchen sitting
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
voice important hearing
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
talking play people
I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.
morning kids self
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.