Annie Baker

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. Annie Baker

Controlling Personality

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. Annie Baker

Important Impossible Me

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. Annie Baker

Emotions Evening Life

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. Annie Baker

God Morning Thank God

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. Annie Baker

Down People Silence