Olivia Swanson Haas is an NYC-born, LA-raised writer, performer, photographer, and creative producer. Collaborators and champions of her work include: The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwrights Inc., the Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, Tin House, Autostraddle, Lambda Literary, and Roxane Gay.
Over 100,000 people have read her 2024 essay "I Had An Affair With My College Dean," and her pilot script ALMA MATER was a 2025 Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival and won Stanford's Alumni in Entertainment screenwriting competition. She is a graduate of UCLA’s Professional Program in Writing for Television and holds a BA in English with Interdisciplinary Focus in Playwriting from Stanford University.
Photography portfolio: oliviaswansonhaas.com
oliviaswansonhaas at gmail dot com
@ ohaas
Based in NYC and LA
Recent Readings - SF & NYC
Director Wynne Chan, developmental workshop, San Francisco (July 2025).
Actors Sharon Shao (L) and Megan Columbus (R), developmental workshop, San Francisco (July 2025).
Actor Mickey Skinner, developmental workshop, San Francisco (July 2025).
Invited audience presentation, Golden Thread Productions, San Francisco (July 2025).
Infinite gratitude for the Dramatist Guild Foundation and their free NYC rehearsal spaces (Oct 2025).
Actors Paige Allen (L) and Lucia Spina (R) with Music Director Nicolas Perez, NYC (Oct 2025).
Invited audience presentation, directed by Eliyana Abraham, NYC (Oct 2025). (L to R: Lucia Spina, Paige Allen, Kimi Handa Brown)