Anna Capunay

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...
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 - awarded a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. The piece was performed at Thalia Spanish Theatre in Queens, NY, November 2017. The play is loosely based on her family's decision to seek alternative cancer treatments for her mother who had a six-month prognosis to live in 2011. Anna's mom is currently in remission from Stage IV lung cancer. https://thaliatheatre.org/2017/11/30/la-gota-fria/

YOUR SILENT FACE: Anna recently made her directorial debut with the short film she also wrote, YOUR SILENT FACE, which was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts Grant in NYC. The short film debuted at the Festival of Cinema NYC in August 2023, winning Best Screenplay. YOUR SILENT FACE is also set to screen in September at the prestigious New York Latino Film Festival. Your Silent Face (Short) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21662276/

Plays

  • Cowl Girl by Anna Capunay
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: mental illness, comic books + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: mental illness, comic books, female superheroes, fan girl, cartoons, 80s music, Geek, geek culture
    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,...
    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.
  • A Cat's Tale by Anna Capunay
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: sexual abuse, me too + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, movement/physical
    Keyword: sexual abuse, me too, cats, siblings, dark comedy, coming of middle age, middle aged men and women
    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 by Anna Capunay
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: latina, Latinx + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: latina, Latinx, cancer, cancer treatment alternatives, 1990s, spanish rock, latin pop, merengue, salsa
    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...
    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!