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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 all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant. ---->>>

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 actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down. ---->>>

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. ---->>>

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 was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. ---->>>

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. ---->>>

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 again. ---->>>



Nationality: American
Born: 06-21, 1981
Occupation: Playwright

Annie Baker (born April 1981) is an American playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and The Aliens.(wikipedia)