John

Annie Baker is a leading American playwright whose plays include John, The Flick (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Obie Award for Playwriting), Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best New American Play), The Aliens (Obie Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival).Her plays have been produced at over 150 theatres throughout the U.S., and have been produced internationally in over a dozen countries. Other recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Steinberg Award, and the Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

'Annie Baker is one of the most singular talents in modern theatre… what the play does, remarkably, is use the trappings of a spooky thriller to explore universal emotions: above all the need to escape the sense of solitary confinement inside our own skins… there is something about John – as you often find in Pinter – that is not susceptible to rational analysis and that only adds to its teasing fascination'