Body Awareness

Set in a college town in Vermont, the play centers on Joyce and Phyllis, two women struggling to raise a son who may, or may not, have Asperger's Syndrome. The tension and ensuing fallout created by a houseguest (whose nude photos of women feature prominently in a "Body Awareness" symposium organized by Phyllis) expose the characters' insecurities and insensibilities, with potentially heartbreaking results.

Kim Tobin-Lehl as Joyce
Matt Lents as Jared
Pamela Vogel as Phyllis
Drake Simpson as Frank
- REVIEW | Houston Chronicle: “A sly, wry look at BODY AWARENESS”
- REVIEW | Broadway World Houston: “BODY AWARENESS - A Stirring and Beautiful Portrait of Intimately Intense Humanity”
Stage Manager | Dani Luers
Set and Prop Design | Jodi Bobrovsky
Lighting and Projection Design | Clint Allen
Costume Design | Macy Perrone
Sound Design | Michael Mullins
Assistant Director | Jarred Tettey
Press Representative | Channing Freeman
House Manager | Courtney Lomelo
Annie Baker is a playwright exploring the complexities of human behavior and the ways in which language is often inadequate to build true understanding between people. With a keen ear for the subtleties of everyday speech, a masterful command of dramatic structure, and a willingness to allow silences to linger on stage (often to a point of discomfort), she brings to life the erratic rhythms of human interaction.
Annie Baker received a B.F.A. (2003) from New York University and an M.F.A. (2009) from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her additional works include Body Awareness (2008), Uncle Vanya (adaptation, 2012), and The Antipodes (2017), and her plays have been produced at the Soho Repertory, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Royal Court, National Theatre, numerous regional theaters across the United States, and in over a dozen countries worldwide. She is a resident playwright at the Signature Theatre and a master-artist-in-residence and co-associate chair in the M.F.A. in Playwriting Program at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
(For full biography, visit macfound.org)