Author Profile:  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 produced in all fifty states and 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 Playwrights-in-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  Honors include winner of the Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award, Anna Zornio Playwriting Competition, AATE’s Unpublished Play Reading Project, University of Central Missouri’s Children’s Playwriting Competition, and East Valley Children’s Theatre Playwriting Competition (Cap o’ Rushes).  Member:  Dramatist Guild of America, Playwright’s Center of Minneapolis, Honor Roll Playwrights, the American Alliance for Theatre Education.  For more information, see claudiahaas.com.