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Annie Baker was born in April of 1981. She was born in Cambridge, MA.
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Very quickly after Annie was born her family moved from their town Cambridge, Massachusetts to Amherst.
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Annie attended New York University's fine arts school.
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Baker wrote her first play, Nocturama, which shows a mentally challenged man who moves back in with his mother.
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Baker attended Brooklyn College directly after graduating from NYU.
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Baker wrote her second play called Body Awareness which touched on a lesbian couple who has a son with Asperger syndrome. This play launched her into national recognition.
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Annie received her Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting.
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Baker wrote The Circle Mirror Transformation which ended up being played by the Playwrite Horizons Theatre for one of the longest times in that theatre's history. This play also won her the Obie Award for best new American play.
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Baker wrote her 4th play, The Aliens.
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Annie produced an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya.
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Baker received the Steinberg Playwright Award which funded her $50,000.
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Annie wrote an episode of an Amazon Prime TV series. Her husband, Noah Baumbach, acted in the episode she wrote.
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Baker was nominated for the Best New Play award because of her play The Flick. She won this award.
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Baker wrote another very successful play that focuses on a group of people talking about world crisis.
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She and Chloe Lamford Co-directed the premiere of The Antipodes.
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Annie Baker currently teaches playwriting classes at different universities across New York.
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Baker's mother, Linda Baker, is currently a psychotherapist and also works at KSC, a college in New Hampshire.
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