Lisa Haas

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Adjunct Lecturer
Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts

EMAIL: lhaas@bmcc.cuny.edu

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Lisa Haas is a comedy writer and actor working in film, television, theatre, voiceover, and education. She has been teaching at BMCC since 2017 and is a former teaching artist with the Metropolitan Guild’s Creative Original Opera Program. Lisa also worked as a writing specialist at the Harlem Children’s Zone. To learn more about her performing arts work, she invites you to pay a visit to her website: www.lisa-haas.com

Expertise

Comedy writing and storytelling. Automatic writing & drawing as the basis for creating fiction, non-fiction, drama and essays.

Degrees

M.F.A. University of Montana, Drama

B.F.A. Loretto Heights College, Directing

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

Lisa is currently the writer for IN HEAT, a narrative comedy podcast that launched in 2021.

Publications

The Turkey.” Life Stories section. Salon.com 2019.

“A Brief History of Lesbian Theatre.” Curve Magazine, print edition, December 2010

“Lesbian Theatre Beyond the Coasts.” Curvemag.com, December 2010

“In Heat.” Queer Ramblings Vol. 5 No 3, p. 16-25, Winter 2004-2005

Entertainment Editor for Hip Ink magazine, print edition, 1995-96

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

Dramatist’s Guild of America, 1997 – Present

Member of SAG-AFTRA, 2018 – Present

Artist-in-Residence at the Emerson Gallery Berlin, 2012

Member of the National Academic Advising Association, 2006 – 2008

Recipient of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, 2001

Artist-in-Residence at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, New York Mills, MN, 2001

Additional Information

www.lisa-haas.com