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''
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Biography
Haber was born in
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Hamilton has a population of 569,353, and its census metropolitan area, which includes Burlington and Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is approximately southwest of T ...
and moved to
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...
,
Quebec
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at age five. She studied Theatre Performance at
Concordia University
Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...
.
Selected works
Plays
* ''Alice and The World We Live In'' (Second place winner, Write on Q! Playwriting Competition 2016)
* ''Water Wars''
* ''Mouth to Mouth''
* ''It’s a Wonderful Life''
* ''On This Day''
* ''Game Changers''
* ''Closed for Urgent and Extraordinary Work''
* ''Cross My Heart''
* ''Tom Waits''
* ''Life Here After'' (Winner of the 2009 Infinite Theatre's Write-on- Q! Playwriting Competition)
* ''I Don’t Like Mondays''
* ''A Christmas Carol'' (adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens)
* ''Housekeeping & Homewrecking'' (MECCA winner for Best Ensemble Production 2007)
* ''Ordinary Times''
* ''Dying To See You Again''
* ''The Full Molly'' (Short listed for the Just for Laughs Best Comedy)
* ''Housekeeping'' (Monologue)
* ''The Farm''
* ''Birthmarks''
Radio plays
* ''A Grown Girl's Guide to Gladness'' (CBC Radio)
* ''The Very Little Girl'' (CBC Radio)
* ''Washing Day'' (CBC Radio)
Short stories
* ''Loved''
* ''New Year's Day''
* ''Housekeeping''
Filmography
* ''19-2'' (TV series, 2 episodes)
* ''Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis'' (TV mini series)
* ''Silent Trigger''
References
Living people
Actresses from Hamilton, Ontario
Canadian television actresses
Concordia University alumni
Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Actresses from Montreal
Year of birth missing (living people)
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