Haley, originally from the foothills of Northern California, now lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a playwright, dramaturg and researcher for television, podcasts, and theatre.
Haley's most recent full-length play, THIS IS A MORTALITY PLAY SET IN AN OFFICE DEPOT, was developed during her time in the Dallas Theater Center Playwrights Workshop 2019 cohort, and was a finalist in the 2021 Urbanite Modern Works Festival. Her other work has been developed and produced across Dallas with organizations including IMPRINT Theatreworks, House Party Theatre, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Kitchen Dog One-Minute Play Festival, among others. She received the Rosenfield Playwriting award from her alma mater, Southern Methodist University, in 2017. She is a 2021 Ucross/Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize Semi-Finalist, and was a 2020 Echo Theatre National Young Playwrights in Residence Finalist.
Haley was a 2019-2021 NNPN Producer-in-Residence at Kitchen Dog Theater, where she also worked as the company's Manager of Literary and Community Engagement since 2018. She completed a Fall Literary Fellowship at Geva Theatre Center in 2019, and has worked full-time in her field since 2017. She has dramaturged new and produced works at Dallas Theater Center, Circle Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Second Thought Theatre, and Theatre Too; evaluated scripts for Seven Devils and the Playwrights Center; and assisted at several new play festivals across the country, in addition to her private clients. She frequently works across disciplines, having also dramaturged immersive multi-media work for Artstillery, two Spoke Media podcasts, and the procedures of the Dallas City Hall Historic Preservation office (completed during her 2019 Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs Micro-Residency). Additionally, Haley is the LMDA Third Coast Regional Vice President, and a recipient of both the 2017 Bly Creative Capacity Grant and an inaugural Actors Theatre of Louisville Emerging Leaders Grant.
Currently, Haley is working as a researcher on AARP's THE PERFECT SCAM podcast and an AMS Pictures true crime documentary for a major network. More information about her work is available at her website, www.haleynelson.me.