Lisi DeHaas

Lisi DeHaas

Lisi DeHaas (she/her) is a playwright based in New York City. Her plays celebrate families in all their myriad forms. Lisi spent her 20s in San Francisco creating multi-disciplinary performance work that explored queer identity and liberation. She holds a BA in Theater and Dance from Amherst College, is a graduate of Anna Halprin’s training in Life/Art process at the Tamalpa Institute and studied television...
Lisi DeHaas (she/her) is a playwright based in New York City. Her plays celebrate families in all their myriad forms. Lisi spent her 20s in San Francisco creating multi-disciplinary performance work that explored queer identity and liberation. She holds a BA in Theater and Dance from Amherst College, is a graduate of Anna Halprin’s training in Life/Art process at the Tamalpa Institute and studied television writing at the Warner Bros Writers Workshop. Her play LEAVE ME GREEN, directed by Jay Stull, premiered at The Gym at Judson. Her play THE SLOW DANCE is premiering at 59E59 Theaters in March of 2024. Lisi is currently working on two new plays, DELIGHT’S CHILDREN, and TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD.

Plays

  • The Slow Dance by Lisi DeHaas
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: parents & children, adult children + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: parents & children, adult children, aging parents, major life change, marriage, fear of change, trans identity, magical realism
    A mother and son are at a crossroads. She's finally ready to leave the family home. He's pushing fifty and just got engaged. When his fiancée hires a professional organizer to facilitate her future mother-in-law's move, more gets dismantled than just the furniture.

    When change feels like the death of everything you’ve ever known, and the thing you know best is fear of change, is...
    A mother and son are at a crossroads. She's finally ready to leave the family home. He's pushing fifty and just got engaged. When his fiancée hires a professional organizer to facilitate her future mother-in-law's move, more gets dismantled than just the furniture.

    When change feels like the death of everything you’ve ever known, and the thing you know best is fear of change, is letting go even possible?

    The Slow Dance is a thoughtful and funny look at family, identity, and the ties that can either bind or smother. A reminder that while life’s big changes can throw us off our rhythm we can learn the steps to a new dance at any age.
  • Leave Me Green by Lisi DeHaas
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: GLBTQ Families, addiction + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: GLBTQ Families, addiction, coping with trauma, aging, reimagining life after loss, urban community, New York City
    What do a failed soap opera star, her co-dependent teenage son, his neurotic twelve-stepping girlfriend, and the pot dealer across the hall have in common? They're each surviving members of families broken by loss. But in New York City, families aren't just broken, they're reconstituted, rebuilt and redefined.
    

    LEAVE ME GREEN investigates the dream of creating our own worlds and...
    What do a failed soap opera star, her co-dependent teenage son, his neurotic twelve-stepping girlfriend, and the pot dealer across the hall have in common? They're each surviving members of families broken by loss. But in New York City, families aren't just broken, they're reconstituted, rebuilt and redefined.
    

    LEAVE ME GREEN investigates the dream of creating our own worlds and families in a city of refugees. It also tests the strength of that dream when our mother or brother or father or lover who first imagined such a world with us is never coming back. When we lose a loved one, do we also lose the family we so richly imagined with them? Or do we remember them better by rebuilding a family from the broken pieces that remain?