This publicity photo released by The Publicity Office shows, from left, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten, in a scene from Annie Baker’s play, "The Flick." Baker's The Flick” has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for drama, a play set in a run-down movie theater that was hailed by the judges as a “thoughtful drama with well-crafted characters” which created “lives rarely seen on the stage.” (AP Photo/The Publicity Office, Joan Marcus)
April 15, 2014 - 3:29 PM
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Annie Baker was teaching a playwriting class at New York University when her phone exploded with rings. Her students soon learned their teacher had just won one of theatre's biggest honours — the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
But class wasn't over, so Baker continued teaching and mentoring. She says it was amazing to find out and immediately go back to teaching.
Her winning play "The Flick" features three low-paid employees of a rundown movie theatre. The play performed off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons last year was hailed by the judges as "a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world."
Plans are already in the works to remount "The Flick" again in New York.
News from © The Associated Press, 2014