CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker directed by Sam Gold January 9 - 30, 2011 Segerstrom Stage
An Obie Award-winner, this comedy triumph was extended twice by popular demand and landed on the Top Ten list of The New York Times and The New Yorker! In a small Vermont town, Marty K holds forth in her summer acting class, populated by a flirty former actress, a pouty 16-year old, a recently divorced carpenter and Marty's hippie husband. The theatre “games” she devises for them are funny, imaginative and sometimes absurd, but the real drama lies beneath the games—where secrets come to light in unexpected ways.
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Playwright Bio
Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright) and Nocturama. Her work has also been produced and developed at the Bush Theatre in London, New York Theatre Workshop, MCC Theater, Soho Repertory, The Orchard Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Ars Nova, Huntington Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, Z-Space/Theatre Artaud, Magic Theatre, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. Ms. Baker is a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and EST, and an alumna of Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Play Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, and a MacDowell fellowship. An anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is forthcoming from TCG in 2011. MFA, Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College.
