Photography by Ella Pennington

Annie Baker

PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR

WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, ALBUM, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?

Lawrence Weschler’s book on Robert Irwin, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees.

DESCRIBE A RECENT CROSSROADS AT WHICH YOU FOUND YOURSELF.

Parenting a small child creates a hundred crossroads a day. It’s fascinating and hard and beautiful. I’ve been thinking a lot about being authoritative versus authoritarian; when to lean into flexibility instead of rigidity and vice versa. This also relates to directing.

““I’ve been thinking a lot about being authoritative versus authoritarian; when to lean into flexibility instead of rigidity and vice versa.””

WHO DO YOU CALL THE MOST?

I have three best friends from childhood, and we touch base daily. I don’t know what I would do without them. Their names are Molly, Molly, and Laila.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF IN YOUR INDUSTRY? LESS OF?

I want people to stop conflating anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. I think this is one of the most dangerous conflations of our time.

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