"I write about people born to brick and asphalt, who don't have bad days, they have bad years."
-Edward Allan Baker (1950-2021)
press/reviews
"Edward Allan Baker is the real thing, a hard hitting East Coast playwright, with a firm command of the issues of the day."
--John Patrick Shanley
(Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright)
"'what's so beautiful about a sunset over prairie avenue?'
Edward Allan Baker has written a play that deserves to be called an authentic work of art. Mr. Baker is a master of verisimilitude; he has an admirable ear. I found it exhilarating, and I am determined to see it again."
--Brendan Gill, New Yorker, April 1980
"In North of Providence, Edward Allan Baker takes a painful domestic crisis and transforms it into a one act play of emotional depth and conviction. An exemplar of the one act art."
--Mel Gussow, NY Times, 1985
"Edward Allan Baker's powerful one act play digs deeply into the complexities of family issues and consequential patterns. Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty and Truth delivers gasp-inducing rawness from beginning to end."
--Time Out New York, Critics Choice
NY International Fringe Festival 2007
"There isn't a moment or line wasted in Edward Allan Baker's 45 minute, one act play, Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth. From the beginning, intensity drives the characters to act as they do until they have no choice but to leave...or stay, depending on the character. They are all trying to build lives based on some basic dreams."
--NY Theatre/Fringe Review, August 2007
"Edward Allan Baker's Face Divided is the most interesting of one-acts. It is another street-smart study by this chronicler of the stresses in working class relationships.
--Mel Gussow, NY Times, June 1991
"A Dead Man's Apartment by Edward Allan Baker suggests a contemporary, blue-collar equivalent of boulevard farce...has an infectiously high adrenaline quotient, some inspired moments of salty absurdism..."
--Ben Brantley, NY Times, May 1995
"Dear Edward Allan Baker:
I read North of Providence with my usual interest in your work, and I'm happy to see that your ear is as good as ever (you and Mamet!), that your characters live and breathe right on the page, and that - as they wrote years ago about another playwright I admire - you breathe fire into the smoking embers of naturalism.
Regards, Edward Albee"
--April 26, 1986
--John Patrick Shanley
(Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright)
"'what's so beautiful about a sunset over prairie avenue?'
Edward Allan Baker has written a play that deserves to be called an authentic work of art. Mr. Baker is a master of verisimilitude; he has an admirable ear. I found it exhilarating, and I am determined to see it again."
--Brendan Gill, New Yorker, April 1980
"In North of Providence, Edward Allan Baker takes a painful domestic crisis and transforms it into a one act play of emotional depth and conviction. An exemplar of the one act art."
--Mel Gussow, NY Times, 1985
"Edward Allan Baker's powerful one act play digs deeply into the complexities of family issues and consequential patterns. Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty and Truth delivers gasp-inducing rawness from beginning to end."
--Time Out New York, Critics Choice
NY International Fringe Festival 2007
"There isn't a moment or line wasted in Edward Allan Baker's 45 minute, one act play, Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth. From the beginning, intensity drives the characters to act as they do until they have no choice but to leave...or stay, depending on the character. They are all trying to build lives based on some basic dreams."
--NY Theatre/Fringe Review, August 2007
"Edward Allan Baker's Face Divided is the most interesting of one-acts. It is another street-smart study by this chronicler of the stresses in working class relationships.
--Mel Gussow, NY Times, June 1991
"A Dead Man's Apartment by Edward Allan Baker suggests a contemporary, blue-collar equivalent of boulevard farce...has an infectiously high adrenaline quotient, some inspired moments of salty absurdism..."
--Ben Brantley, NY Times, May 1995
"Dear Edward Allan Baker:
I read North of Providence with my usual interest in your work, and I'm happy to see that your ear is as good as ever (you and Mamet!), that your characters live and breathe right on the page, and that - as they wrote years ago about another playwright I admire - you breathe fire into the smoking embers of naturalism.
Regards, Edward Albee"
--April 26, 1986
media
bio/rights
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