Annie Baker (born 1981) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Read full biography of Annie Baker →
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.
I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting... →
Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
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... →
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating... →
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
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... →
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... →
Annie Baker (born 1981) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.