Annie Baker

Annie Baker is a playwright exploring the complexities of human behavior and the ways in which language is often inadequate to build true understanding between people. With a keen ear for the subtleties of everyday speech, a masterful command of dramatic structure, and a willingness to allow silences to linger on stage (often to a point of discomfort), she brings to life the erratic rhythms of human interaction.

Her works, including Body Awareness (2008), Circle Mirror Transformation (2009), The Aliens (2010), Uncle Vanya (adaptation, 2012), The Flick (2013), John (2015),and The Antipodes (2017) capture how we speak, act, and relate to one another,and the humor, absurdity, and tragedy that results from the limitations of language and our fraught search for more meaningful human connections.

Her plays have been produced at the Soho Repertory, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Royal Court, National Theatre, numerous regional theaters across the United States, and in over a dozen countries worldwide.

She is a resident playwright at the Signature Theatre and a master-artist-in-residence and co-associate chair in the M.F.A. in Playwriting Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 2017, she was named a MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow.

Baker received a B.F.A. (2003) from New York University and an M.F.A. (2009) from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.