NEWS
New Youth Plays: Promises to Keep, Under Spacious Skies, Louisa and Her Little Women, At the Fair (all large-cast plays with a majority or all roles for teens)
2025 is pretty amazing to date; a look at who is producing my plays this year.
Antigone in Munich: Mansfield High School, Mansfield - MA; Nocona, TX; Beaver, UT; Whidbey Children's Theatre, Langley, WA;
Dear Anne from Nina: Bryan High School, Bryan, TX; Midwestern State University, TX; Dyer County H.S., TN; Legacy Christian Academy, Andover, MN;
Fisherman and His Wife: The Campagna Center, Alexandria, VA;
Guide to the Teenage Zone: Skyview H.S., Highlands Ranch, CO;
Haunting of Will Shakespeare: Cross Bay, OR;
Kafka and the Doll: MA Thespian Festival, Somerville - MA
La Bella Cinderella: Minneapolis, MN (a tour)
Little Red: Life in the Hood: Anderson Elementary School, Cross City, FL;
Midsummer Night's Dream: Tippit Middle School, Georgetown, TX; Bogota H.S., Bogota, NJ; Cashmere Drama, Cashmere, WA;
My Brother's Gift: Two Harbors High School, Two Harbors - MN; Kirkintilloch Players, Scotland;
Not in Our Town: Temple Solel Raker, Paradise Valley, AZ;
Pride and Prejudice: Liverpool, UK; JL Crowe Secondary, Canada;
Soundscapes: Mahtomedi, High School, MN; Grand Prairie; Canada, Knudson Academy of the Arts, Las Vegas, NV; Theater Irons, Ossining, NY; New Prague High School, MN; Ames High School, Iowa; Liberty Hill School, Liberty Hill, TX; Franklin, TN; Zizzer Dramatic Theatre, MO; John Stark Regional High School, NH; Starcast, London, UK; Jeff Davis Arts Council, Jennings, LA; East Theatre, Houston, TX; Wellesley Middle School, MA; Bonnette Junior High School, Deer Park, TX; Harwood Junior High School, Bedford, TX; Manhattan, IL; Mountain Rige H.S., Phoenix, AZ;
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Tarpon Springs H.S., Tarpon Springs, FL; George Rogers Clark H.S., Winchester, KY; Willows Prep, Redmond, WA;
2024 gave me four new publications. Visit them (and produce them!) at the New Youth Published Plays Page.
Remembering Margot is a semi-finalist in the Theater du Mississippi One-Act Play Contest.
Making Some Noise (one-act version) was a winner finalist in the Mike Dobbs One Act Play Contest at the Heartland Theatre.
Yours Until Niagara Falls had a writing residency at Utah Valley University and an excerpt was featured at the American Alliance for Theatre Education conference in Chicago.
If you'd like to get to know my work (or me) better:
My page at the New Play Exchange (where you can read entire scripts of my unpublished plays): Claudia Haas New Plays
Question and Answer interview about working on A Day of Dreaming
Some Interviews about me and my work: (Just click on what's linked)
Local interview about working with Eva Schloss on a play about her brother Heinz Geiringer.
White Bear Lake Press Publications
Video Discussion with me and Holocaust Survivor, Peace Activist Eva Schloss about the play My Brother's Gift. Discussion led by Maria McConville, Education Director at Stage Partners.
Question and Answer interview about working on Dear Anne from Nina.
Question and Answer interview about working on Antigone in Munich: the Sophie Scholl Story
White Bear Press Publications: Local Playwright Receives National Recognition
Adam Szymkowicz's I Interview Playwrights: Claudia Haas
From Little Lifeboats: Rising Tides: Claudia Haas
A guild set up to be an advocate for playwrights and their work. A wealth of information for playwrights and producers complete with playwright's websites.
The Dramatist Guild
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New Play Exchange: There are thousands of playwrights on the exchange. And you can read their new plays in their entirety. It's a small yearly fee to join. Search databases according to genre, cast size, events, etc. I have been a member since its inception and one of their biggest fans.
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A resource for all who work in theatre education. Benefits include publications, a yearly conference, online sources for new resources in theatre education and networking.
AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR THEATRE EDUCATION
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