Claudia Haas
White Bear Lake, MN
Claudia loves creating stories that are seemingly small in scope but large in the question of what it means to be a human.
Biography

Claudia Haas has a large body of work for young performers and theatre for young audiences. Honors/Winners include the Old Miner's Children's Playwriting Contest (Almost Mary, developed at Utah Valley University), Unpublished Play Reading Project (La Bella Cinderella), The Aurand Harris Playwrighting Competition (By Candlelight), The Prince George Children's Theatre Touring Group (La Bella Cinderella and The Fisherman and His Wife), East Valley Children's Theatre (Cap o' Rushes), The Anna Zornio Memorial Playwrighting Competition (The Fisherman and His Wife), Marilyn Hall Awards (Beverly Hills Children's Guild) (The Tailor), and The Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwrighting Contest (twice).

Her work has been developed through the Bonderman Symposium (now the Write Now! Competition) both as a finalist (By Candlelight) and a semi-finalist (Cast Away in Shakespeare's Garden), the Purple Crayon Players Playground (at Northwestern University - Bound by Stardust), The William Inge Festival of New Plays (A Paper Forest) and through the Playwrights-in-our-Schools Grant (Under a Midsummer Moom and Antigone in Munich). Professionally her youth theatre plays have been produced by Riverside Children's Theatre, the Red Wagon Tour of New England and the New Conservatory Theatre.

New adult plays include Sunday Sauce (readings with Little Lifeboats-Mpls) Houston Family Arts Center and Sun Dog Theatre (NYC) and Making Some Noise (reading with Workhouse Theatre, Mpls and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill). Her youth plays are with 9 publishers and have seen over 1100 productions in all fifty states as well as on five continents.

 

Successes

Claudia Haas received a Playwrights-in-our Schools grant administered by the American Alliance for Theatre Education and Broadway Across America-Utah for her play Antigone in Munich: the Sophie Scholl Story. She was paired with a school and director to devlop the play ending with a staged reading.