Annie Baker - Biography

Annie Baker (born 1981) is an 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. 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 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. and received Obie Awards for Best New American Play and Performance, Ensemble. 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.

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.

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.

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)

External links

• New York Times review of The Aliens
• TimeOut New York profile
• TimeOut New York review of Body Awareness
• Casting Complete for Goldfarb and Baker Plays at Playwrights Horizons", playbill.com, Jones, Kenneth, June 2009