The Artists
Cast & Crew
Annie Baker, playwright
Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), 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), The End of the Middle Ages (commission for Soho Rep) and Nocturama. Her work has also been developed and produced at the Bush Theatre in London, New York Theatre Workshop, MCC Theater, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Ars Nova, the Huntington, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens Theater, Theatre Artaud, the Magic Theater, 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 Theater’s Playwrights Coalition and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and she is an alumna of Youngblood Playwrights Group, 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, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from Center Theatre Group and Playwrights Horizons. She has an M.F.A. from Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College.
Cristina Todesco, Scenic Designer
Cristina Todesco previously designed The Long and Winding Road and The Atheist for the Huntington. Design credits include The Atheist (Culture Project at the Barrow Street Theater and Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sonia Flew (Summer Play Festival), Triumph of Love, A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow (Olney Theater Center), Opus (New Repertory Theatre), Grimm and The Aliens (Company One), Reckless and Body Awareness (SpeakEasy Stage Company), and Island of Slaves (Orfeo Group). Ms. Todesco is the recipient of an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for New Repertory Theatre’s production of The Clean House. She received her M.F.A. in scenic design from Boston University’s School for Theatre Arts, where she currently teaches.
Bobby Frederick Tilley II, Costume Designer
Bobby Frederick Tilley’s design credits for theatre include The Aliens (Rattlestick), Lizzie Borden (The Living Theater), Mel and El: Show and Tell (Ars Nova), The Betrayal, Rhinoceros (The Mighty Theatre), Gaugleprixtown, The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons (Studio 42). Top Girls, Act 1 (The Biltmore-MTC), The Pinter Plays, Body Awareness, Birth and After Birth, 10X20, and The Butter and Eggman (Atlantic Theatre Company), No Boundaries (The New York Musical Festival), The Ontological Detective (Blue Heron Arts Center), Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Len Jenkin’s The Country Doctor (Marymount College), Further Than The Furthest Thing (MTC), Tallahassee, The Lesser Magoo, and Mac Wellman’s Dracula (The 78th Street Theatre Lab). Costume designs for film include The Green (upcoming), Four Lane Highway, Little Kings, Rubout, Jack Goes Boating (Assistant Designer). He was a Drama Desk Award Nominee for 2010 and a Henry Hewes Design Award Nominee for 2010.
