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 sets, and pretty much fell in love with the idea of doing theatre. 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.

A proud New Yorker since 2008, I share a cozy Brooklyn apartment with my cat, Coco (aka “Girly”), and now focus my efforts on writing, editing, and traveling. My family lives on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee; I visit often and rejoice in having the best of both worlds.