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“Baker deals with mortality and tragic influences by creating characters that are brutally honest, fascinatingly quirky, and jaded enough to find humor in almost anything.” —ELJNYC.com. “There is an exuberant creativity in Edward Allan Baker’s THE FRAMER…” —TheaterMania.com. “Baker, with a talent for good old-fashioned storytelling and a flair for robust humor, turns it all into some two hours of totally arresting theatre…entertaining, seething stew of a domestic drama.” —BackStage.

Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty, and Truth, Lila on the Wall, & Mafia On Prozac

“Edward Allan Baker tells a wrenching story of loves found and lost, of broken hearts and betrayal. [UP, DOWN, STRANGE, CHARMED, BEAUTY, AND TRUTH] inflames the scarred tissue of family relationships already torn and raw from the chaos of life.” —NY Times. “…truly inspired moments of comedy…[In] Edward Allan Baker’s MAFIA ON PROZAC, a pair of hit men, owing more to Tom Stoppard than to Mario Puzo, argue over such highfalutin’ issues as fate versus free will.” —NY Times.“…a stirring little fable. That [LILA ON THE WALL] turns out inspiring rather than maudlin is…due to the strength of the punchy, honest writing.” —BroadwayWorld.com

North of Providence, Dolores & Lady of Fatima

First produced with great success by the Ensemble Studio Theatre. “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. There are enough conflicts for a novel or mini-series—distilled to an essential moment…an exemplar of the one-act art.” —NY Times.

A Dead Man's Apartment, Rosemary with Ginger & Face Divided

“Edward Allan Baker’s A DEAD MAN’S APARTMENT is a hilarious farce about a Providence couple having a noontime affair. They seem dimwitted and crude but in fact both have rather shrewd instincts, which Baker delineates with great storytelling skill.” —NY Daily News. “…The best is ROSEMARY WITH GINGER, a spicy domestic blood bath that plays like a gender-reversed retread of Sam Shepard’s True West."

North of Providence