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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

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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.

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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.

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Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

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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.

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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.

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

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