Annie Baker

Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking... The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theatre." - Jesse Green, New York "Hilarious and ineffably touching... Ms. Baker's peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as...

The debut play collection of Annie Baker includes The Aliens: an exploration of friendship and music in the lives of three misfits behind a coffee shop; Circle Mirror Transformation: a meditation on life within the rhythms of an adult drama class; Nocturama: a dark comedy in which a grown son returns home to live with his mother and stepfather; and...

Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By not rushing things—by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall—Baker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.' New Yorker John,...