{"id":17859,"date":"2022-11-29T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=17859"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:12:30","slug":"travis-baker-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=17859","title":{"rendered":"Travis G. Baker \u2022 Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRAVIS BAKER, Playwright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Hockey Mom <\/i>premiered at the Penobscot Theatre Company in March, 2022 after earning the Literary Award for Drama by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in 2021.\u00a0. Other PTC productions include\u00a0<i>SQUATCH\u00a0<\/i>(2019),\u00a0<i>Hair Frenzy<\/i>\u00a0(2016) and\u00a0<i>One Blue Tarp<\/i>\u00a0(2014) &#8211; named the Best of Maine in the 2013 Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights.\u00a0<i>Boy Missing<\/i>\u00a0(2018) and\u00a0<i>The Store<\/i>\u00a0(2019) were included in the Maine Playwrights Festival.\u00a0\u00a0New York plays include:\u00a0<i>Sex &amp; Violence<\/i>\u00a0(2010) and\u00a0<i>God &amp; Mr. Smith<\/i>\u00a0(2001 and 2003) with Kaleidoscope Theatre Co.\u00a0\u00a0He received a Berilla Kerr Award for\u00a0<i>Cold<\/i>\u00a0(NYFringe-1997) and\u00a0<i>The Weatherbox<\/i>\u00a0(Rattlestick-1998) and was an Edward F. Albee Foundation fellow. He studied theatre at the University of Houston and went on to work at the Signature Theatre Co. (1995-98) in New York. He has an MA in English (University of Maine-Orono) and an MFA (Fairfield University). He is an Illustrator for Foundations EIC and BHP for Watch Me Shine, a pre-school for children with special needs. He resides in Orono, Maine with his wife, Holly Twining, and their boys, August and Zane.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYS PUBLISHED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=17747\"><strong>HOCKEY MOM<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=18724\"><strong>ONE BLUE TARP\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=19681\"><strong>HAIR FRENZY<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=18729\"><strong>THE STORE\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW!<\/strong><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=18943\"><strong>SQUATCH<\/strong><\/a> (TYA) by Travis G. Baker, Zane Baker and Isaac Miller<\/li>\n<li><strong>BOY MISSING<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=19678\"><strong>THE MAINE PLAYS<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; by Travis G, Baker (A Collection of FIVE Plays)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVIS BAKER, Playwright Hockey Mom premiered at the Penobscot Theatre Company in March, 2022 after earning the Literary Award for Drama by<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=17859\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[708],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-17859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-creator","tag-maine-author-creators"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6fXeh-4E3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19723,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions\/19723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}