Annie Rasiel

Annie Rasiel is a writer, educator, producer, and director. These days she mostly writes films and plays, sometimes with her husband, filmmaker Harry Rossi. Their debut feature, Pescador, is currently making the rounds at film festivals, and De Novo (Annie's directorial debut!) is in post-production. Annie taught English for six years at NYC schools and was the founder and director of a children's theater in Ohio, where she directed ten Shakespeare plays with actors aged 11 - 15.

Annie Rasiel is a writer, educator, producer, and director. These days she mostly writes films and plays, sometimes with her husband, filmmaker Harry Rossi. Their debut feature, Pescador, is currently making the rounds at film festivals, and De Novo (Annie's directorial debut!) is in post-production. Annie taught English for six years at NYC schools and was the founder and director of a children's theater in Ohio, where she directed ten Shakespeare plays with actors aged 11 - 15.

Scripts

Infinite Leg

by Annie Rasiel

Synopsis

Get big! John, Mike, Dan, and J started off as strangers recovering from leg-lengthening surgery at a shared boarding house, but now, months into their recovery process, they’re brothers. As the big guys crank leg (an agonizing medical procedure that lengthens their bones one millimeter at a time), they cheer each other on, share secrets, and imagine how their lives will transform with a few hard-won centimeters...

Get big! John, Mike, Dan, and J started off as strangers recovering from leg-lengthening surgery at a shared boarding house, but now, months into their recovery process, they’re brothers. As the big guys crank leg (an agonizing medical procedure that lengthens their bones one millimeter at a time), they cheer each other on, share secrets, and imagine how their lives will transform with a few hard-won centimeters.

An absurd comedy inspired by drag performance, body dysmorphia, and the craziest corners of the internet.

Joanna

by Annie Rasiel

Synopsis

It’s been six years since Joanna vanished. But Kate doesn’t know about that.

Kate is fine. She just moved in with Marcus—which is good! It’s great, actually. He’s really working on himself. He’s reading books about stress management. He’s doing so well that he hasn’t even told her about his former girlfriend who inexplicably disappeared.

Marcus doesn’t think about Joanna anymore.

But when Joanna’s mother...

It’s been six years since Joanna vanished. But Kate doesn’t know about that.

Kate is fine. She just moved in with Marcus—which is good! It’s great, actually. He’s really working on himself. He’s reading books about stress management. He’s doing so well that he hasn’t even told her about his former girlfriend who inexplicably disappeared.

Marcus doesn’t think about Joanna anymore.

But when Joanna’s mother, Sharon, suddenly reappears—bringing boxes of Joanna’s things and a fervent belief that Joanna will return—revelations about the past warp the present. Kate grows close to Sharon and becomes obsessed with the beautiful missing woman she never met, while Marcus’s calm exterior fractures. Blending psychological drama, dark comedy, and surreal horror, Joanna explores grief, control, intimacy, and the ways women shape and disappear into each other.

Busted

by Annie Rasiel

Synopsis

Dr. Greenfield is dead--or so she says. Ruby knows the truth, though, and she is on a mission to prove it.

When my long time therapist died in 2022, I developed an irrational conviction that she faked her own death to get away from my whining. This play explores my longing for her to still be alive, the rage I felt at her for abandoning me, and the limits of the therapist/patient connection.

Dr. Greenfield is dead--or so she says. Ruby knows the truth, though, and she is on a mission to prove it.

When my long time therapist died in 2022, I developed an irrational conviction that she faked her own death to get away from my whining. This play explores my longing for her to still be alive, the rage I felt at her for abandoning me, and the limits of the therapist/patient connection.

You Need Help

by Annie Rasiel

Synopsis

There are no cell phones allowed at Peace Valley Farms, where sophisticated urbanites send their children to milk cows and live out their back-to-the-land fantasies. The girls of Sycamore cabin don’t mind, though. They just learned about manifesting, and they’ve got intentions to set. It’s the summer after sixth grade, and the seven Sycamore girls spend it terrorizing and taking care of one other as they...

There are no cell phones allowed at Peace Valley Farms, where sophisticated urbanites send their children to milk cows and live out their back-to-the-land fantasies. The girls of Sycamore cabin don’t mind, though. They just learned about manifesting, and they’ve got intentions to set. It’s the summer after sixth grade, and the seven Sycamore girls spend it terrorizing and taking care of one other as they navigate crushes, periods, gangrene, color war, and bunny murder. Written by a veteran middle school teacher, You Need Help explores the tensions between dependence, independence, and interdependence, and what it means to seek control when even your own body is in chaos.