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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

Topics: Actor Between Down Everything Happens Importantly Interested Letting Lines More People Play Silence Slowing Stage Talking Things Very

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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

~Annie Baker

Topics: About Audiences Because Becoming Being Everybody Fast Feel Freaked Interested Irrelevant Keeping Like Loud Now Obsession Out Pace Right Theater Things Think Very Witty I Think I Feel I Feel Like

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

~Annie Baker

Topics: Articulate Enjoy Hearing Important Important Things Impossible Me Most Sound The Most Important Things Voice

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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

~Annie Baker

Topics: Expressing Myself Primary Way Writing

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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.

~Annie Baker

Topics: Again Attempted Badly College Conventional Could Downtown Either Experimental Feel Like Loved Me More My Own Occur Own Plays Start Stopped Theater Thing Until Write Writing

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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.

~Annie Baker

Topics: About Again Find Growing Growing Up Haunt Kind Me Met Myself Over People Small Small Town Still Them Think Town Up Writing I Think

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I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

~Annie Baker

Topics: Fictional Plays Really Setting Stop Town Trying Vermont

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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

~Annie Baker

Topics: Anything College College Students Most Opposite Students Think Who

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

~Annie Baker

Topics: Controlling Ended Novelist Personality Plays Somehow Up Writing Yeah

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I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

~Annie Baker

Topics: About Consumed Fear Get Speaking Terrible Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: Unknown

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