About Me

I’m Haas. I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and lived there until I was six years old. Since that time, I have been fortunate to call many places “home.” An only child, I grew up in Marietta, Georgia, and spent the majority of my early years swimming inside my own head, imagining far-off places and drawing maps of how I’d get there. I took tap and ballet lessons and thought perhaps I'd become a dancer; I also loved writing plays and short stories.

I earned my Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt, where I double-majored in English and Theatre, graduated with honors, and acted in over a dozen productions on and off the university’s main stage theater. After my junior year, I apprenticed at the Williamstown Festival in Massachusetts, where I swept the floor after David Hyde Pierce and Marisa Tomei, glued papier-mâché onto the sets, and pretty much fell in love with the idea of doing theatre full-time. A year later, I moved to Providence to begin training at Brown's MFA Program, where I met the best friends of my life and studied with many inspiring teachers.

I have been a proud resident of New York since 2008, but I recently traded my cozy Brooklyn apartment for a home in Westchester County. For the last thirteen years, I’ve shared my space with my partner in crime, Coco the calico cat (aka “Miss Girly”). In addition to my work in the theatre as a director, actor, and dramaturg, I enjoy writing, editing, and traveling. My family lives on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee; I visit often and rejoice in having the best of every possible world.