Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
biography
Former off-off Broadway actress and script supervisor, and a graduate of the AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, whose student film, "August/September", won her a writing job on the TV series "Family" in the late 1970s. Haines then directed several episodes of "Hill Street Blues", "Knots Landing" and "Tucker's Witch", as well as "Under This Sky", a PBS historical epic starring Irene Worth; "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", starring Geraldine Fitzgerald; and the award-winning drama about incest, "Something About Amelia" (1984).Haines' feature debut, "Children of a Lesser God" (1986), was
Work with film students at the School of Visual Arts led to her choosing to work behind the camera
Worked at small film production company where she bought props, edited sound effects and became script supervisor (for almost ten years)
Directed and co-wrote student film, "August/September" (based on parts of a Doris Lessing novel) which led to her being hired as a writer for TV series, "Family"
