(Photos left to right: Under a Midsummer Moon, photo by Linda Wolf, published by Dramatic Publishing; Making Some Noise, photo by Scott Pakudaitis, Freshwater Theatre Company; Erin Elevator's Extraordinary Adventure, photo by Richard Herman, published as Wild Island Adventure by Eldridge Publishing, Antigone in Munich, Liahona Preparatory Academy, Utah. Antigone in Munich photos by Jason Siebels of Renegade Photography, Fargo, North Dakota.)
Welcome to the plays of Claudia Haas. The plays have had over 1500 productions in professional theatres, tours, universities, high schools and community theatres. I have a large body of work for intergenerational and young audiences as well as young performers.
NEW: Not in Our Town (the story of the start of the Not in our Town Peace Movement in Billings Montana) has been reworked for a large cast of high school/university actors. Find a new excerpt here.
NEW: A new high school play published for teens designed to be performed via Zoom. Founding Daughters (Cast 9-25) focuses on four little-known heroines of the American Revolution as handed down through oral history. Read the play at Stage Partners.com.
Free Scenes for Teens: They are free to use in the classroom, you must contact me with your name, school, city and state to get the rights. They cover many genres from the silly to the poignant to the historical.
NEW: Letters from Lisette, Cast 6-11; many extras possible. SYNOPSIS: There is a story that Kafka found a young girl weeping in a park. He tried to console her, but she was bereft. She had lost her doll and would never get over it. Kafka announces that he has a letter that he found and he wonders if it could be from her doll. It was! And so began a three-week correspondence where Kafka wrote daily letters for the girl from her traveling doll. Her doll was not lost. She was merely traveling to return to her beloved France. The story might have gone something like this… Excerpt: letters_from_lisette_-_website.pdf.
The plays have been graced with many honors (the About Me page lists contest results).
Selected National Play Development: Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest Bonderman Symposium (retitled Write Now), Playwrights-in-our Schools Grant, Purple Crayon Players, William Inge Center for the Arts.
You can also find me on the New Play Exchange. All of the plays have full scripts for you to read.
Like my page Claudia Haas, Playwright on Facebook and follow my latest news there.
I am available to Skype (no fee), speaking engagements, and always reachable by e-mail. Enjoy the site.
Welcome to the plays of Claudia Haas. The plays have had over 1500 productions in professional theatres, tours, universities, high schools and community theatres. I have a large body of work for intergenerational and young audiences as well as young performers.
NEW: Not in Our Town (the story of the start of the Not in our Town Peace Movement in Billings Montana) has been reworked for a large cast of high school/university actors. Find a new excerpt here.
NEW: A new high school play published for teens designed to be performed via Zoom. Founding Daughters (Cast 9-25) focuses on four little-known heroines of the American Revolution as handed down through oral history. Read the play at Stage Partners.com.
Free Scenes for Teens: They are free to use in the classroom, you must contact me with your name, school, city and state to get the rights. They cover many genres from the silly to the poignant to the historical.
NEW: Letters from Lisette, Cast 6-11; many extras possible. SYNOPSIS: There is a story that Kafka found a young girl weeping in a park. He tried to console her, but she was bereft. She had lost her doll and would never get over it. Kafka announces that he has a letter that he found and he wonders if it could be from her doll. It was! And so began a three-week correspondence where Kafka wrote daily letters for the girl from her traveling doll. Her doll was not lost. She was merely traveling to return to her beloved France. The story might have gone something like this… Excerpt: letters_from_lisette_-_website.pdf.
The plays have been graced with many honors (the About Me page lists contest results).
Selected National Play Development: Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest Bonderman Symposium (retitled Write Now), Playwrights-in-our Schools Grant, Purple Crayon Players, William Inge Center for the Arts.
You can also find me on the New Play Exchange. All of the plays have full scripts for you to read.
Like my page Claudia Haas, Playwright on Facebook and follow my latest news there.
I am available to Skype (no fee), speaking engagements, and always reachable by e-mail. Enjoy the site.