Rosie Narasaki

Rosie Narasaki

Rosie Narasaki is a second-generation actor and playwright. Her play UNRIVALED just had its world premiere production with Playwright's Arena and the Boston Court Pasadena, prior to which it was workshopped with EST/LA, Artists at Play, the Road Theatre Company, and won the 2022 LA New Play Project Award. Her play WHEN YURI MET MALCOLM toured local schools with East West Players last year, and she is also...
Rosie Narasaki is a second-generation actor and playwright. Her play UNRIVALED just had its world premiere production with Playwright's Arena and the Boston Court Pasadena, prior to which it was workshopped with EST/LA, Artists at Play, the Road Theatre Company, and won the 2022 LA New Play Project Award. Her play WHEN YURI MET MALCOLM toured local schools with East West Players last year, and she is also currently working on a commission for Center Theatre Group’s Library Play Readings series.
She is an alum of EST/LA's New West Playwrights, the IAMA Under 30 Theatre Lab, the Boston Court Pasadena Playwrights, and Scripps College. She also wrote for a Netflix show once.

Plays

  • Unrivaled by Rosie Narasaki
    Recommendations: 6
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: heian japan, japanese poetry + 8 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, drama, period, romantic comedy
    Keyword: heian japan, japanese poetry, murasaki shikibu, sei shonagon, the tale of genji, the pillow book, female friendship, female authors, adult women best friends, Japan
    11th century ladies-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagon are, to this day, two of Japan's most beloved writers.

    They also kind of hated each other.

    This play is about friendship, heartbreak, and what it means to be a female artist. Perhaps most of all, it's about how no matter how much things change, the more they stay the same... even after a thousand years.
  • I Don't Like You by Rosie Narasaki
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: meta, Asian American + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: meta, Asian American, romantic comedy, interracial dating, writing
    Things quickly go bad (and kind of meta) when two friends decide to write a romantic comedy together. Issues of gender, race, and ego crop up left and right as Ariane and Chris struggle to find the line between fact and fiction.
  • Call Declined by Rosie Narasaki
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Leni just wants to talk, but Will won't open the door (because he's too high).
  • These F*cking Paper Towels by Rosie Narasaki
    Recommendations: 1
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    2
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, romantic comedy
    Joe has an unfortunate encounter with a roll of paper towels whilst getting dumped.
  • Wrong Footed by Rosie Narasaki
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    WRONG FOOTED follows Catherine, an ambitious web developer, and Will, a not-so-ambitious barista. Both are simultaneously too smart and too stupid for their own good, as well as anxiety-ridden in their own, unique ways. They meet on a blind date, it goes terribly, and it's pretty much all downhill from there.
  • Genji Revisited by Rosie Narasaki
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, romantic comedy
    Poor Genji's trying to enjoy a simple romantic moment in a cafe, when the ghost of his recently deceased ex-girlfriend decides to possess his date. Their brief and comedic interaction spans everything from his philandering ways to the ultimate existential crisis — death. Loosely based on 'The Tale of Genji' (but not as loosely as you'd think).
  • Friend Request by Rosie Narasaki
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, romantic comedy
    Madison is completely fine with the fact that Jacob is her only friend in the whole universe — until the day he asks her out. She promptly turns him down, and he in turn, friend-dumps her. Things spiral further out of control when she just so happens to ask out the friend who cuckolded him back in college. Farce-y hijinks ensue.