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Annie Baker

ANNIE BAKER

  (1981 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Mark Subias

Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include 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 Body awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/emerging Playwright). Her plays have also been produced regionally by South Coast Rep, Guthrie Theater, Victory Gardens, artists Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, Studio Theatre in DC, Hyde Park Theatre, Kansas City Rep, and San Francisco Playhouse, and have been produced internationally in London, Melbourne, Sydney, and Buenos aires. She has developed work at Signature Theatre, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, Orchard Project, Ontological-Hysteric, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Bay area Playwrights Festival and Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. annie is a member of New Dramatists, MCC's Playwrights Coalition and eST, and she is an alumna of Youngblood, Ars Nova's Play Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell fellowship and a Master artist Residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts. a published anthology of her work, the Vermont Plays, will be published by TCG in November 2011, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya will have its world premiere at Soho Rep in June 2012.

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         Aliens, The         Body Awareness         Circle Mirror Transformation         Clinically Negative (A Viral Comedy)         Flick, The         Group         John         Missed Connections         Nocturama         Porn Forest         Three Knocks         Uncle Vanya

Aliens, The

Aliens, The
Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside the back of a small coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at the cafe. When he meets the two young men he is irresistibly drawn into their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands-that never-were. - See more at: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/the-aliens/9780571274444#sthash.yxENxzmk.dpuf

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comedy Drama

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Body Awareness

Body Awareness
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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aka "Awareness"

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Bay area Playwrights Festival

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Lesbian, full length

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Circle Mirror Transformation

Circle Mirror Transformation
Five lost people come together at a community centre class to try and find some meaning in their lives. Counting to ten can be harder than you think. Over six tangled weeks their lives become knotted together in this tender and funny play. - See more at: http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/circle-mirror-transformation/9780571309610#sthash.pqnF4yRs.dpuf

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Playwrights Horizons Peter J Sharp     24 Sep 2009

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Faber and Faber Ltd, London (2013) >>>
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2010
New Playwrights: the Best Plays 2010, ed Lawrence Harbison, Smith & Kraus (November 1, 2011)   978-0571309610

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Comedy

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Clinically Negative (A Viral Comedy)

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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."
nytheatre.com

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written by Elizabeth Meriwether, Sam Forman, Billy eichner, Annie Baker, Beau Willimon

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MC enterprises

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Comedy. - - AIDS, full length

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Flick, The

Flick, The
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, the Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

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winner of 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10036     15 Feb 2013

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dramatic comedy

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Group

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an aspiring author tries to quit her writer's group. Neurosis ensues.
nytheatre.com

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part of Thicker Than Water A program of new short work from Youngblood

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John

John
The week after Thanksgiving. A Bed & Breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.

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1st Produced:
Signature Theatre in New York City     Aug 2015

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Full Length Play, Drama

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Missed Connections

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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.
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Ars Nova, NY     26 Jan 2010

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Nocturama

Nocturama
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part of the Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab Reading Series.

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Contained in: "the Vermont Plays" published by Theatre Communications Group 2012   978-1559363891

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Porn Forest

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written by Annie Baker And emily Conbere

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Tiny Theater Festival

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Three Knocks

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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

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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya
This intimate, immersive new adaptation of Chekhov's classic from critically-acclaimed playwright Annie Baker, author of Body Awareness, Mirror Circle Transformation, and The Flick, brings colloquial language to this internationaly beloved story of human relationships and yearning. Written with the goal of creating a version that sounds to our contemporary American ears the way the play sounded to Russian ears during the play's first productions in the provinces in 1898, Ms. Baker's Uncle Vanya introduces 21st century audiences to Chekhov's enduring wit, insight, and emotionl depth.

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Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Adapted by Annie Baker working with a literal translation by Margarita Shalina and the original Russian text

1st Produced:
Soho Rep
46 Walker Street, New York, NY 10013     07 Jun 2012

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Soho Rep

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TCG Books
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2015) >>>   978-0573701566

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adaptation 120 min

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