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Annie Baker
Playwright | Class of 2017
Mining the minutiae of how we speak, act, and relate to one another and the absurdity and tragedy that result from the limitations of language.


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Playwright
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New York, New York
Age
36 at time of award
Area of Focus
Theatrical Arts
Website
Hunter College: Annie Baker
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Published October 11, 2017
ABOUT ANNIE'S WORK
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.

In several plays set in Shirley, Vermont—a fictional small town—Baker creates seemingly simple stories about ordinary, working-class people facing familiar predicaments. Circle Mirror Transformation (2009) traces the emotional transitions and the relationships forged and broken among five participants in a community acting class, with each of several short scenes centering upon an acting exercise that draws out fragments of the characters' personalities and histories. Baker's use of silence and slow, patient pacing illustrates that we communicate the most about ourselves in the gaps and blank spaces between the thoughts we put into words. The three disenchanted young men of The Aliens (2010), almost of a third of which is silent, inadvertently reveal their vulnerabilities in their verbal tics and cues, pauses and befuddlement. Frustrated ambitions and workplace malaise are themes Baker returns to in The Flick (2013). Idle talk of movies, art, and popcorn among the three young employees at a run-down movie house gradually gives way to tensions around class, race, and gender as their gestures of friendship and intimacy falter. Baker's empathy for her characters and their anxieties is also clear in John (2015), as a young couple grapples with spiritual and philosophical questions in a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, bed and breakfast run by a friendly but uncanny older woman.

In mining the minutiae of how we speak, act, and relate to one another, Baker captures the humor, absurdity, and tragedy that result from the limitations of language and our fraught search for more meaningful human connections.

BIOGRAPHY
Annie 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. Her additional works include Body Awareness (2008), Uncle Vanya (adaptation, 2012), and The Antipodes (2017), and 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.



安妮-贝克
编剧 | 2017级
挖掘我们如何说话、行动和相互联系的细枝末节，以及因语言的局限性而产生的荒诞和悲剧。


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获奖时为36岁
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发表于2017年10月11日
关于安妮的作品
安妮-贝克是一名剧作家，她探索人类行为的复杂性以及语言往往不足以在人与人之间建立真正的理解。她对日常言语的微妙之处有着敏锐的听觉，对戏剧结构有着娴熟的掌握，并愿意让沉默在舞台上徘徊（常常达到不舒服的程度），她将人类互动的不稳定节奏带入了生活。

在几部以佛蒙特州雪莉为背景的戏剧中--一个虚构的小镇--贝克创造了看似简单的故事，讲述普通的工人阶级面临熟悉的困境。Circle Mirror Transformation》（2009年）追踪了一个社区表演班的五个参与者之间的情感转变和关系的建立与破裂，其中的几个短场景都以一个表演练习为中心，引出了人物的个性和历史的片段。贝克利用沉默和缓慢、耐心的节奏说明，我们在用语言表达的思想之间的空隙和空白处，最能体现我们自己。外星人》（2010年）中的三个心灰意冷的年轻人，几乎有三分之一是沉默的，在他们的语言抽搐和暗示、停顿和茫然中不经意地暴露了他们的弱点。野心受挫和工作场所的萎靡不振是贝克在The Flick（2013）中回到的主题。在一家破旧的电影院里，三个年轻雇员之间关于电影、艺术和爆米花的闲聊逐渐让位于围绕阶级、种族和性别的紧张关系，因为他们的友谊和亲密关系的姿态已经动摇。贝克对她的角色和他们的焦虑的同情在《约翰》（2015）中也很明显，一对年轻夫妇在宾夕法尼亚州盖茨堡的一家由一位友好但不可思议的老妇人经营的床和早餐店中努力解决精神和哲学问题。

在挖掘我们如何说话、行动和相互联系的细枝末节时，贝克捕捉到了语言的局限性和我们对更有意义的人际关系的探索所带来的幽默、荒谬和悲剧。

个人简历
安妮-贝克获得了纽约大学的艺术学士学位（2003年）和纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院的艺术硕士学位（2009年）。她的其他作品包括《身体意识》（2008年）、《万尼亚舅舅》（改编，2012年）和《反派》（2017年），她的剧本在Soho Repertory、Signature Theatre、Playwrights Horizons、Royal Court、National Theatre、全美众多地区剧院以及全球十几个国家上演。她是Signature剧院的常驻剧作家，也是纽约市立大学亨特学院剧本创作硕士课程的驻校大师和联合副主席。