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ANNIE BAKER |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY (agent - Chris Till) |
Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include BODY AWARENESS (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), and NOCTURAMA. Her work has also been developed and produced at New York Theatre Workshop, MCC, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, the Ontological-Hysteric, Ars Nova, the Huntington, South Coast Rep, the Magic Theater, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. Annie is a member of New Dramatists, MCCs Playwrights Coalition, and EST, and an alumna of Youngblood, Ars Novas Play Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from Center Theatre Group and Playwrights Horizons. MFA, Mac Wellmans playwriting program at Brooklyn College.
Plays by Annie Baker
Aliens, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rattlestick Theatre, 224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014 >>> | 22 Apr 2010 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 2012 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2473-0 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113582 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two angry young men sit behind a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high-school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. A play with music about friendship, art, love and death. | |||||
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Awareness | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Wellfleet, MA | 14 Oct 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132507 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A middle aged lesbian academic, her former married lover, the ex-lover's son and a photographer house guest are all affected by Body Awareness Week | |||||
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Body Awareness | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Bay Area Playwrights Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-66310-9 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66816 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| It is 'Body Awareness Week' at bucolic Shirley State College in Vermont, and all must go according to plan. But when photographer Frank Bonitatibus shows up with his passel of photographs of naked women, things start to go awry. | |||||
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Circle Mirror Transformation | ||
| 1st Produced: | Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp | 24 Sep 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257754 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103581 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty's community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Annie Baker's new comedy is a beautifully crafted diorama, a petri dish in which we see, with terrific detail and clarity, the hilarious sadness of a motley quintet | |||||
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Clinically Negative (A Viral Comedy) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | MC Enterprises | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63560 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | written by Elizabeth Meriwether, Sam Forman, Billy Eichner, Annie Baker, Beau Willimon | |||||
Synopsis: | a collectively-written new comedy about AIDS. The following description is from the show's press release: "Playwright Beau Willimon curates an evening of work by several playwrights dealing with the issue of AIDS. The result is Clinically Negative, a full length play in which each of the five contributing writers picks up where the previous writer left off. The result is a hysterically irreverent take on the experience of getting tested for HIV." | |||||
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Group | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Youngblood | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62568 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | part of Thicker Than Water a program of new short work from Youngblood | |||||
Synopsis: | An aspiring author tries to quit her writer's group. Neurosis ensues. | |||||
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Missed Connections | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 26 Jan 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97382 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
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Notes: | Part of a program of short plays and killer live music inspired by ads for the ones that got away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, and Samuel Brett Williams, all of the play titles are taken directly from actual Craigslist Missed Connections ads. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Nocturama | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63482 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | part of the Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab Reading Series. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Porn Forest | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Tiny Theater Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66817 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Notes: | written by Annie Baker and Emily Conbere | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Three Knocks | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58108 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, a festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members and guest artists | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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