Claudia Haas, Playwright
I have been privileged to work as a playwright for many years. As a freelancer, I have worked as a director, actor and teacher of theatre which has given me insight to how theatre works backstage, onstage and off the stage. I have created theatre in schools (including their gymnasiums and cafeterias), caves, nature centers and libraries. Theatre is everywhere.
I have over fifty published plays which have seen over 1700 productions in every state in the U.S.A. as well as on five continents (Still looking for Antarctica.) My plays have been popular in the high school one-act play festival competitions and my ten-minutes are used regularly for forensics.
Awards include:
Playwrights for Change Award (Adult Category): Hiking
American Alliance for Theatre Education Distinguished Play Award: My Brother's Gift
NYU New Plays for Young Audiences: Soundscapes
The Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest: Letters from Lisette
The Growing Stage New Play Development: Letters from Lisette
Strike it Rich Award at Utah Valley University: My Brother's Gift
The Growing Stage New Play Development: Dear Anne from Nina
Playwrights on our Schools grant (Antigone in Munich; Under a Midsummer Moon)
The Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Award (Almost Mary), Utah Valley University, staged reading; semi with Bound by Stardust
University of Central Missouri's Children's Playwriting Contest (Once in the Time of the Rainbow Crow); touring production
Purple Crayon Players (Bound by Stardust) - development, staged reading
William Inge Theatre Festival New Plays Lab (A Paper Forest) - staged reading, talkback
Unpublished Play Reading Project Award (La Bella Cinderella) - a selection staged at AATE Conference
Prince George's Children's Theatre Play Writing Contest (winner twice: La Bella Cinderella and The Fisherman and His Wife)
East Valley Children's Theatre Play Writing Contest (Cap o' Rushes) - production
Playwrights in our Schools Grant (Under a Midsummer Moon) - development (there are "qualifiers that must be met to submit)
Anna Zornio Memorial Playwriting Competition (The Fisherman and His Wife)
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award (By Candlelight)
Bonderman Symposium (now called "Write Now") (By Candlelight) - development, staged reading; "semi" with a few plays
The Jackie White Memorial Children's Play Writing Contest (winner twice: The Haunting of Will Shakespeare and Commedia Delight)
Second Place nods have come from The Marilyn Hall Awards as well as several times in the Jackie White Memorial Children's Play Writing Contest, Nantucket Short Play Contest and East Valley Children's Theatre.
Select Play Development includes: Selected National Play Development: (Wonderful places that gave me a director, dramaturg and cast. A truth: the collaboration makes for a better play.) Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest, The Growing Stage New Play Development, Bonderman Symposium (retitled Write Now), Playwrights-in-our Schools Grant, Purple Crayon Players, William Inge Center for the Arts.
My short plays (ten-minutes) are in numerous anthologies. Adult plays are in various Best Ten Minute Plays edited by Lawrence Harbison and my youth plays are in anthologies edited by Kent R. Brown and Lawrence Harbison.
I make my home in White Bear Lake, MN - home of the polar vortex, 10,000 lakes and the exquisite lady slipper orchid. There are cats on the keyboard, grown children nearby and an ever-supportive husband who supports my every endeavor and eats all my pasta dishes.
I have over fifty published plays which have seen over 1700 productions in every state in the U.S.A. as well as on five continents (Still looking for Antarctica.) My plays have been popular in the high school one-act play festival competitions and my ten-minutes are used regularly for forensics.
Awards include:
Playwrights for Change Award (Adult Category): Hiking
American Alliance for Theatre Education Distinguished Play Award: My Brother's Gift
NYU New Plays for Young Audiences: Soundscapes
The Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest: Letters from Lisette
The Growing Stage New Play Development: Letters from Lisette
Strike it Rich Award at Utah Valley University: My Brother's Gift
The Growing Stage New Play Development: Dear Anne from Nina
Playwrights on our Schools grant (Antigone in Munich; Under a Midsummer Moon)
The Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Award (Almost Mary), Utah Valley University, staged reading; semi with Bound by Stardust
University of Central Missouri's Children's Playwriting Contest (Once in the Time of the Rainbow Crow); touring production
Purple Crayon Players (Bound by Stardust) - development, staged reading
William Inge Theatre Festival New Plays Lab (A Paper Forest) - staged reading, talkback
Unpublished Play Reading Project Award (La Bella Cinderella) - a selection staged at AATE Conference
Prince George's Children's Theatre Play Writing Contest (winner twice: La Bella Cinderella and The Fisherman and His Wife)
East Valley Children's Theatre Play Writing Contest (Cap o' Rushes) - production
Playwrights in our Schools Grant (Under a Midsummer Moon) - development (there are "qualifiers that must be met to submit)
Anna Zornio Memorial Playwriting Competition (The Fisherman and His Wife)
Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award (By Candlelight)
Bonderman Symposium (now called "Write Now") (By Candlelight) - development, staged reading; "semi" with a few plays
The Jackie White Memorial Children's Play Writing Contest (winner twice: The Haunting of Will Shakespeare and Commedia Delight)
Second Place nods have come from The Marilyn Hall Awards as well as several times in the Jackie White Memorial Children's Play Writing Contest, Nantucket Short Play Contest and East Valley Children's Theatre.
Select Play Development includes: Selected National Play Development: (Wonderful places that gave me a director, dramaturg and cast. A truth: the collaboration makes for a better play.) Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest, The Growing Stage New Play Development, Bonderman Symposium (retitled Write Now), Playwrights-in-our Schools Grant, Purple Crayon Players, William Inge Center for the Arts.
My short plays (ten-minutes) are in numerous anthologies. Adult plays are in various Best Ten Minute Plays edited by Lawrence Harbison and my youth plays are in anthologies edited by Kent R. Brown and Lawrence Harbison.
I make my home in White Bear Lake, MN - home of the polar vortex, 10,000 lakes and the exquisite lady slipper orchid. There are cats on the keyboard, grown children nearby and an ever-supportive husband who supports my every endeavor and eats all my pasta dishes.