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“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.”

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Annie Baker

Annie Baker is an American playwright known for her concise and profound scripts. Her works often explore the complexities of human relationships and inner worlds, praised for their unique narrative style and dialogue techniques. more

“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.”

Feels Writing Play My Own College Theater Conventional Downtown

Author:Annie Baker

“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.”

Mother Emotion Sitting Tables Raised Evening Kitchen Psychologist Inner Life Kitchen Table Dissecting

Author:Annie Baker

“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.”

People Play Happens Actors Lines Silence Talking Stage Slowing Between The Lines

Author:Annie Baker

“Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.”

Ifs Lasts Space Growing Up Clear Growing Revolutionary Slowly But Surely

Author:Anthony Braxton