Lindsey Haley (1959) is a Chicana Irish poet and playwright.^[1]

Haley was born March 12, 1959 in El Paso, Texas. In 1968, her family moved to Venice, California.^[1] Haley is a self-taught poet, playwright and community activist highlighting the effects of gun violence.^[2] Haley has participated in playwriting workshops with Josefina Lopez at CASA0101 and Luis Alfaro at the Latinx Theater Alliance/Latino Theater Initiative Los Angeles.^[3] She has read poetry and led group discussions on the cultural icon, the Virgin of Guadalupe at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California.^[4]

In 2023, Haley's play titled, Favorite Cousins premiered at CASA 0101 Theatre in Boyle Heights.^[5] Haley's first full-length play is about the effects of gun violence on families and community.^[6] CASA 0101 is an incubator for new plays founded by Mexican playwright Josefina Lopez, co-screenwriter of the 2002 film version of her play Real Women Have Curves.^[6]

Haley worked on Favorite Cousins while holding a full-time job at the City of Santa Monica and co-producing the new works program at CASA 0101. Early versions of this play were commissioned by Te Ada Productions; staged reading at Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica; and staged at the New Orleans Fringe Festival in New Orleans.^[3]

Since 2012, Haley has co-produced the new works writing and directing workshop Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme at CASA0101.^[7] This program produced over one hundred new plays by new playwrights in its first ten years.^[7]

In 1999, her poetry was published in Chapter 12: Poems de Una Chicana/Irish in Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en L.A., edited by Gustavo Leclerc, Raul Villa, M.J. Dear by SAGE Publications.^[1]