Annie Baker is an American playwright and film director. She is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick (2013). She has written a series of plays set in the fictional town of Shirley: Body Awareness (2008), Circle Mirror Transformation (2009), The Aliens (2010), and Nocturama (2014). She made her feature film directorial debut with the A24 coming-of-age drama Janet Planet (2023).