Annie Baker, Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler speak onstage with Dennis Lim after a ‘Janet Planet’ screening at the 61st New York Film Festival Theo Wargo/Getty Images for FLC ...

KURTZLEBEN: Annie Baker, the writer and director of the new movie "Janet Planet," thank you so much for being with us. BAKER: Thank you for your great questions.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of her generation, but the movies have long lingered in her mind and in her work. In “The ...

ANNIE BAKER: I have realized since making the movie, that if you're a woman and you make a movie about a little girl in the town where you grew up, you get asked this question a lot, which, for ...

Annie Baker’s debut feature film, ‘Janet Planet,’ is set in a world all its own — the Pioneer Valley ‘I think one of the reasons I made the movie is that I don’t know how to describe ...

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut. By Robert Ito Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story ...

Baker adapted “Uncle Vanya” in 2012 and, in 2014, won the Pulitzer for “The Flick.” In 2017, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Occasionally, Baker tried her hand at screenwriting.

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut. By Robert Ito Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story ...

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut. By Robert Ito Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story ...

Annie Baker: You know, every year of history is like equally interesting in its way. I don’t mean to put like a special weight on ‘91, but it was really fun to like look back at it.

Annie Baker’s distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill and affection.

Annie Baker’s distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill and affection.