Annie Baker is an American playwright. He was born in 1981 and grew up in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the department of theater writing at Tisch University in New York with a master's degree in playwriting from the Department of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College. Some of her most famous works are: Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Aliens, Nocturama, John, the Antipodes. Baker was one of seven playwrights selected to participate in the 2008 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. In 2011 he became a member of the United States Artists Association, and in 2013 he won the $50,000 prize The Steinberg Playwright. Flick's acclaimed play premiered at Playwrights Horizons in March 2013, receiving the Obie Award for playwriting the same year and the Pulitzer Prize the following year, making Baker one of the most distinguished and multi-awarded writers of our time.