
Claudia Haas
Claudia focuses on theatre for young audiences and inter-generational audiences. She is a winner of American Alliance for Theatre Education’s ‘Distinguished Play Award” for My Brother’s Gift. She was an O’Neill Conference semifinalist for her 9/11 play Making Some Noise. Her plays have been widely produced in all fifty states as well as on six continents. Her youth plays have been developed through NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences - Steinhardt, The Growing Stage Children's Theatre, The Bonderman Symposium, Purple Crayon Players, the Playwrightsin-our-Schools grant and the Old Miner’s Children’s Playwriting Contest. Honors include winner of the Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award, Anna Zornio Playwriting Competition, AATE’s Unpublished Play Reading Project, University of Central Missouri’s Children’s Playwriting Competition, East Valley Children’s Theatre Playwriting Competition, and others. Member: Dramatist Guild of America, Playwright’s Center of Minneapolis, Honor Roll Playwrights, the American Alliance for Theatre Education.
Distinguished Play Award: My Brother's Gift administered by the American Alliance for Theatre Education
Over 1,000 productions in every state in the USA as well as on six continents (waiting for Antarctica to do a production)
Published with Stage Partners, YouthPLAYS, Playscripts, Dramatic Publishing, Eldridge Publishing Company, Heuer Publications, Brooklyn Publishers, Pioneer Drama, Big Dog Publishing
My Brother's Gift filmed for PBS in Illinois
Professional productions include:
The Fisherman and his Wife at Adventure Theatre MTC, Riverside Children's Theatre, Red Wagon Tour
Anansi, the Clever Spider at New Conservatory theatre in San Francisco
My Brother's Gift (educational program) at New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco