Susan Eve Haar

Discipline: Playwriting

Based In: Riverhead, NY

Year at Millay: 2025

Awards/Honors: Second Place Prize Winner, 10:4 TENN Ten-Minute Play Contest, Tennessee Williams Tribute Festival/"Ponder Review," Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS (2022); Prize Winner, Chester B. Himes Memorial Fiction Prize, Kallisto Gaia Press, Austin, TX (2021); Commission Recipient, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project, New York, NY (2019–2020).

Website: http://www.susanevehaar.com

I am a member of The Actor’s Studio, Ensemble Studio Theater, and The Writers Guild East, and my work has been published in The Best Short Plays of 2018, The Best Men’s Monologues 2007 and 2018, Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2018, 2019, and 2020, all by Smith and Kraus. As well as Monologues For Headspace Theatre: Radical Thinking Inside A Box, edited by Michael Bigelow Dixon for Smith and Kraus Books, 2019. My full-length play, The Darlings, was published by Broadway Publishing, and scene 11 of The Darlings is forthcoming in Thirty Scenes for Young Women to be published by Smith and Kraus. My play The Suitcase took second place in the Tennessee Williams Tribute’s 10:4:TENN, national ten-minute playwriting contest, and I am the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Commission. My plays have been read and produced at various venues, including Primary Stages, The Edinburgh Festival, The Women’s Project, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, HERE, Chester Theater, and Manhattan Repertory Theatre. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, I received an MFA from Salve Regina University in 2024.