Alexandria Haber is a Canadian playwright and actor. Her plays include Life Here After (winner of the 2009 write-on-Q playwriting competition), I Don’t like Mondays, Four Minutes if You Bleed, Housekeeping & Homewrecking, Ordinary Times, Birthmarks, A Christmas Carol, and Tom Waits[1]. She has written radio plays for CBC Radio including The Very Little Girl (winner of the CBC Radio New Voices Competition) and Washing Day (winner of the CBC Radio Sound FX contest).[2][3]

Biography edit

Haber was born in Hamilton, Ontario and moved to Montreal, Quebec at age five.[4] She studied Theatre Performance at Concordia University.[5]

Selected works edit

Plays edit

  • Alice and The World We Live In (Second place winner, Write on Q! Playwriting Competition 2016)[6]
  • Water Wars
  • Mouth to Mouth
  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • On This Day[1]
  • Game Changers[1]
  • Closed for Urgent and Extraordinary Work[1]
  • Cross My Heart[2]
  • Tom Waits[3]
  • Life Here After (Winner of the 2009 Infinite Theatre's Write-on- Q! Playwriting Competition)[1]
  • I Don’t Like Mondays[1]
  • A Christmas Carol (adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens)[1]
  • Housekeeping & Homewrecking (MECCA winner for Best Ensemble Production 2007)[1]
  • Ordinary Times[1]
  • Dying To See You Again
  • The Full Molly (Short listed for the Just for Laughs Best Comedy)
  • Housekeeping (Monologue)
  • The Farm
  • Birthmarks[2]

Radio plays edit

  • A Grown Girl's Guide to Gladness (CBC Radio)[7]
  • The Very Little Girl (CBC Radio)[7]
  • Washing Day (CBC Radio)[7]

Short stories edit

Filmography edit

  • 19-2 (TV series, 2 episodes)[8]
  • Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (TV mini series)[8]
  • Silent Trigger[8]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Profile | Playwrights Guild of Canada". Retrieved 2019-05-11.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c "Alexandria Haber | Tarragon Theatre". Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  3. ^ a b "Life Here After - Media Kit". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  4. ^ "Alexandria Haber". inthegreenroom.ca. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  5. ^ "Investigating domestic life through theatre". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  6. ^ Burke, Jim (2019-04-19). "Lucy Peacock's Satan reigns over Centaur Theatre's 2019-20 season". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Ford's Focus: Alexandria Haber". The Charlebois Post. Montreal. 2011-11-20. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  8. ^ a b c "Alexandria Haber". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-05-11.