Annie Baker’s plays include Infinite Life (Atlantic Theater Company, National Theatre),The Flick (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Obie Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize),The Antipodes (Signature Theatre, National Theatre), John (Signature Theatre, National Theatre, Obie Award), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play) and an adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival), for which she also designed the costumes. Other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinberg Playwriting Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and the Cullman Center Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She wrote and directed the film Janet Planet (Telluride Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival), forthcoming from A24/BBC Film.
Baker graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College.