As a playwright, I’m interested in making theatre you can feel with your whole body.  I’m inspired by music videos, children's movies, consumerism, 1960s sitcoms, dance, and Grimm fairytales, and the result is highly theatrical writing that navigates the ugliest parts of adulthood with youthful joy and tenderness. My work has been produced across Dallas by House Party Theatre, Imprint Theatreworks, and Sundown Collaborative Theatre and in a variety of venues including bars, warehouses, theaters, and the Dallas Museum of Art.  I was a finalist for the 2020 Echo National Young Playwrights in Residence program, Semi-Finalist for the 2021 UCROSS/Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize, and recipient of the 2017 SMU Rosenfield Playwriting Award. My newest play, THIS IS A MORTALITY PLAY SET IN AN OFFICE DEPOT was featured as one of three plays in Urbanite Theater’s 2021 Modern Works Festival.

A sample of my work, including my newest full-length play THIS IS A MORTALITY PLAY SET IN AN OFFICE DEPOT is available on my New Play Exchange profile

Haley talks about her artistic mission with Dallas Theater Center.

THIS IS A MORTALITY PLAY SET IN AN OFFICE DEPOT

(Full-length) Parallel universes are real and in all of them Office Depots exist and that makes Tina want to die.

A play for millennials on the brink of everything.

Staged readings:

• Urbanite Theatre’s Modern Works Festival (Spring 2021)

• Imprint Theatreworks First Impressions Festival (Spring 2020)

• Dallas Theater Center Dallas Playwrights Workshop (Showcase)

Photos from Imprint Theatreworks First Impressions Festival

ON STAYING INDOORS

(One Act) The sky has turned orange, and it's probably the end of the world, but a married couple sits comfortably on their front porch talking about the weather, carrying on as usual. MR. has a mysterious box his wife can't touch. MRS. is reading the subtext of the newspaper. It's all a little unsettling. What is bravery, and how do we express love, in the face of (probable) doom? Run time approximately 20 minutes.

• Commonwealth School (Boston, MA) (2021)

• Sundown Theatre Collective Short Works Festival (2017)

• House Party Theatre GRAND SLAM! Festival (2015)

• SMU Student Theatre DAMN!sels Festival(2015)

• Quarantined Players (as radio play, 2020)

    PERAMBULATORY: preambleastory

(Full-length) JP, 6, is scared. Samantha Louise, 8, writes stories that are “inappropriate.” The same could be said of teachers Miss Charlene and Mr. Boris making out at lunch, Samantha Louise’s always-gone Mother, or JP’s Dad, scaring his son with talk of taxes and disease. Nothing's working, but everyone’s trying their best; maybe there’s love in there somewhere.

Workshops:

• Imprint Theatreworks First Impressions Mainstage Festival (Summer 2019)

Staged readings:

• Southern Methodist University New Visions, New Voices Festival (Spring 2017)

• Imprint Theatreworks First Impressions Festival (Spring 2018)

Posters/playwright note from Southern Methodist University New Visions New Voices Festival, photos from Imprint Theatreworks First Impressions Festival reading and Mainstage Festival workshop production (by Kris Ikejiri)

AT ETERNITY'S GATE (libretto)

The morning after an evening with a prostitute, Van Gogh poses her a question and reflects on his recent rejections from becoming a priest and asking his cousin to marry him.

Southern Methodist University NEW MUSIC FOR STAGE festival (Spring 2017)

short plays

Meet Cute                         

Contract(or)



I CAN DIAGNOSE MY ANGER THO

Roar   
                                                                                       
Hurt                     

ANXIETY IS NASTY, OK?

Conversation Hearts, Inc.                             

Plot Device                                                        

COMPENSATION                            

Hands                                    
         

BINGBANGBOOMVROOM     

Sundown Collaborative Theatre, dir. Christopher Aundre Dawson (2019)

Camp Death Productions, dir. Nick Haley (2018)

House Party Theatre, dir. Ryan Lescalleet (2017)


Rochester Bake-Off, Geva Theatre Center Fielding Stage (2019)



One Minute Play Festival/Kitchen Dog Theater, dir. Stefany Cambra (2019)

One Minute Play Festival/Kitchen Dog Theater,  dir. Jake Nice (2018)    



One Minute Play Festival/Kitchen Dog Theater,  dir.  Clay Wheeler (2018)     


House Party Theatre, dir. Sarah Hamilton (2017)



House Party Theatre, dir. Ryan Lescalleet (2017)

House Party Theatre/Dallas Museum of Art, dir. Sarah Hamilton  (2017)       
   

House Party Theatre/Women Galore, dir. Kristen Kelso (2016)                        

SMU Student Theatre, dir. self (2016)

SMU Solo Performance Showcase, dir. self/Rhonda Blair (2015)