Postcards
Playwright
July 9, 2022 - July 10, 2022

Playwrights Center of San Francisco is proud to announce our first inaugural "BIPOC Expressions, A Showcase of Short Plays" aimed to highlight the unheard narratives of disproportionately underrepresented BIPOC writers.

The Word
Podcast
Guest, October 2020

In this episode, Joshua Trotter (The Word podcast) interviews Rannie McCants about theater in 2020. Rannie shares how Gossip Girl shaped her future, her decision to move to New York City, how she landed a job at a historical New York City theater, and the impact of COVID-19 on the larger theater community.

For more about The Word podcast, listen here.

Building Wakanda Project
New York, NY
Community Organizer, April 2018

The Building Wakanda Project is a collective of organizers, entrepreneurs, activists, thought leaders, and community builders coming together to imagine what Black Panther means for the future of our communities.

Fusion Film Festival
New York, NY
​Co-Head of Programming (August 2016 - May 2017)

Night
New York, NY
​Script Consultant (2016)

NIGHT finished post-production in early 2017. Length: 9.30 min. Written and Directed: Joosje Duk
Starring: Rachel Hilson, Genelva Krind, Katherine Romans, Kelly McCready and Doron Mitchell. Cinematography: Maria Rusche. Produced by Nicole Quintero Ochoa and Lily van Leeuwen. Music: Overcoats.

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Fusion Film Festival
New York, NY
​Public Speaker, Gender Bias in the Film Industry (December 2015)

 The Legacy
New York, NY
Playwright, 24-Hour Play Festival (September 2015)

The Legacy was first written, directed, and performed during NYU's 24-Hour Play Festival. Inspired by the Greek tragedy, Madea, Almalurre struggles to decide if marrying her child's philandering father is best for herself and her baby. She challenges the confines of marriage and makes a shocking decision that will affect the future for both herself and her child.
(Performed at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, 24-Hour Play Festival; Written by Rannie McCants, Directed by Silvana Gonzalez Manzar; Stage Directions read by Rannie McCants; Performed by Silvana Gonzalez Manzur, Hannah Kulp, and Luana Psaros)

Easy Love: A Staged Reading
New York, NY
The Dramatists Guild of America, (December 5, 2014)

Easy Love: A Staged Reading follows the unpredictable life of Fatima, a second-generation American, struggling to discover her identity in the midst of an unsettling divorce. She flees her home in the big city to start over, but finds herself in a place she never expected to land. With the help of unlikely friends, she discovers the true meaning of hope, but she wonders if that will get her closer to understanding herself.
Click here for more information about the play.
(Written and Produced by Rannie McCants; Directed by Brianna McGhee; Stage Directions read by Carol Brown; Performed by Broderick Clavery, Carolina Do, David Klein, and Monique Scott)

America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Pass or Fail in Cambodia Town
Long Beach, CA
Production Intern, (3/2014-8/2014)

During her internship with the PBS documentary series, America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa, Rannie traveled to California to assist in the filming of Pass or Fail in Cambodia Town. Here she had the chance to meet Cambodian students and listen to stories about growing up in Long Beach's South East Asian community.

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