Anna Capunay

Anna Capunay is a Queens, NY native. Her works include:

COWL GIRL - produced by the Dramatic Question Theatre in 2013. This piece was adapted into a television pilot in 2015 by Arrow and Key Productions and shot at the renowned Cinespace Chicago Film Studios. The pilot garnered numerous laurels including Best of the Fest finalist at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival 2017. In April 2022, COWL GIRL received a reading via the NYC-based Unattended Baggage Film and Theatre Company, where she served as the Managing Director. COWL GIRL went on to make its Off-Off Broadway debut in August 2023, at the famed Players Theatre in Greenwich Village where she has an Artistic Residency. COWL GIRL | Unattended Baggage (unattendedbaggagecompany.com)

A CAT’S TALE - produced in 2015 by...

Anna Capunay is a Queens, NY native. Her works include:

COWL GIRL - produced by the Dramatic Question Theatre in 2013. This piece was adapted into a television pilot in 2015 by Arrow and Key Productions and shot at the renowned Cinespace Chicago Film Studios. The pilot garnered numerous laurels including Best of the Fest finalist at the Chicago International REEL Shorts Film Festival 2017. In April 2022, COWL GIRL received a reading via the NYC-based Unattended Baggage Film and Theatre Company, where she served as the Managing Director. COWL GIRL went on to make its Off-Off Broadway debut in August 2023, at the famed Players Theatre in Greenwich Village where she has an Artistic Residency. COWL GIRL | Unattended Baggage (unattendedbaggagecompany.com)

A CAT’S TALE - produced in 2015 by Paula Landry (Idea Blizzard Productions) and directed by Rick Mowat (SnackPack Productions). This piece was subsequently adapted into an independent feature and became an Official Selection at San Francisco’s Best Actors Film Festival 2016, winning Best Director for Comedy and Best Ensemble Cast for Comedy. A CAT’S TALE made its debut at the 2016 Chelsea Film Festival in New York City. (https://chelseafilm.org/a-cats-tale/) and A Cat's Tale (https://acatstalefilm.tumblr.com/)

LA GOTA FRIA - stage play performed at Thalia Spanish Theatre in November 2017 and was partially funded by the Queens Council on the Arts. This piece is very personal as it is loosely based on her family’s decision to seek alternative cancer treatment for their mother who lived 14 years past her original prognosis of six months. The play returned in 2025 as a full production at The Players Theatre in NYC. La Gota Fria went on to win multiple acting and playwriting awards. Selected awards include Playwriting Recognition from Premio Arte Internacional, 2025 and Featured Playwright Award by Latin Alternative Theatre Awards (LATA), 2026.

YOUR SILENT FACE: short film written and directed by Anna. Logline: "Two romantically linked Latines sneak out to catch their favorite post-punk band, Bootblacks, perform. Guada is risking not only being grounded if caught but may find themself back at the psych ward if they don't comply with their mother's terms." This project was partially funded by the Queens Council on the Arts, 2021. Your Silent Face went on to win multiple awards in 2023 including: Best Screenplay at the Festival of Cinema NYC, Best LGBTQ Film at the L.A. Punk Film Festival, and tied for Audience Favorite at the Sunnyside Shorts International Film Festival. Official Selections also include the New York Latino Film Festival and New York Short Film Festival; in 2024- NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, Greenpoint Film Festival, and AMT International Film Festival.

SOMBRAS-- short film written and directed by Anna. Logline: "What happens when a married couple's financial and emotional issues come to a violent head? This new short film by the award-winning duo, Anna Capunay and Bill McDonald, explores the dynamics and frustrations of a newly-retired NYPD officer on a three-quarter pension and his wife who is burnt out from everything, including his abuse." This project was partially funded by the Queens Council on the Arts, 2024 (now administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Scripts

Cowl Girl

by Anna Capunay

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
romantic comedy

Cowl Girl always wears a Batman cowl, masking herself from the outside world. Will her friends, Jason and Tabby, and the intriguing nephew of her arch-enemy, Alex, be able to get her to break out of her shell? If you like 80's pop culture, Pee-wee Herman, sci-fi and comic book heroes, then this is the show for you! This is a love letter to kids who grew up in the 80's and remember what real cartoons, music, and...

Cowl Girl always wears a Batman cowl, masking herself from the outside world. Will her friends, Jason and Tabby, and the intriguing nephew of her arch-enemy, Alex, be able to get her to break out of her shell? If you like 80's pop culture, Pee-wee Herman, sci-fi and comic book heroes, then this is the show for you! This is a love letter to kids who grew up in the 80's and remember what real cartoons, music, and super heroes were like back in the day.

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A Cat's Tale

by Anna Capunay

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
movement/physical

A Cat's Tale is a dark comedy about a cat lady conspiring with her dim-bulb brother to save their aging feline, revealing that the kitty holds the key to riches, redemption from family secrets and… a world’s record.

A Cat's Tale is a dark comedy about a cat lady conspiring with her dim-bulb brother to save their aging feline, revealing that the kitty holds the key to riches, redemption from family secrets and… a world’s record.

La Gota Fria: The Cold Sweat

by Anna Capunay

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

1.) When the matriarch of the Gonzalez family is diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, her loved ones rally around her. They try to convince Josefina to think outside the box and take a chance on a clinic in
Houston, Texas that has been successfully treating terminal cancer patients like herself. The play uses 90s pop culture, snippets of music and dance as the setting takes place in Queens, NY in a time when...

1.) When the matriarch of the Gonzalez family is diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer, her loved ones rally around her. They try to convince Josefina to think outside the box and take a chance on a clinic in
Houston, Texas that has been successfully treating terminal cancer patients like herself. The play uses 90s pop culture, snippets of music and dance as the setting takes place in Queens, NY in a time when "Googling" was not yet a verb and good old-fashioned hard copy researching science propels the family to a life-saving decision.

2.) What is it about cancer that makes people laugh? Nothing you say? Maybe this new play by Anna Capunay can make you dance, laugh and think about you choices involving cancer treatments. So let's go back in time to Queens, NY in the 1990s when you, your family and your friends were dancing to new and classic Salsa, Merengue and Latin Pop!

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